cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) (08/13/89)
I recently upgraded my display system from EGA to VGA with the addition of a Paradise VGA plus 16, but in doing so, my cursor has disapeared. I have tried using the bios to create a block cursor to see if that would help, but no dice, I still couldn't see where I was. This is a real pain in the neck when using an editor. Has anybody else had a similar problem?? Background: The board passes all diagnostics and otherwise works fine. The base system is a DELL 286 purchased about 1 year ago (and it had an option for a vga, so the bios should have no problem with a vga) running MS-DOS 3.3. I have RTFM and found nothing that seems to apply to this. The original display system works fine. Thanks for any help
JLI@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (08/14/89)
In article <1008@virtech.UUCP>, cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: > I recently upgraded my display system from EGA to VGA with the addition > of a Paradise VGA plus 16, but in doing so, my cursor has disapeared. I have > tried using the bios to create a block cursor to see if that would help, but > no dice, I still couldn't see where I was. This is a real pain in the > neck when using an editor. > > Has anybody else had a similar problem?? Yes, I did, but not with the Paradise VGA board. I had the same problem with an EVEREX EVGA (EV-673) board. I tried it on a 20MHz NEAT 286 system. It did show the cursor. I tested it and found out only 2 out of 8 text display pages worked. I also used Norton Utility (SI) to see what was going on, and I found a duplicate BIOS extension on C200 (which is a duplicate of what was on C000). When I installed this board in a different 286 machine (12 MHz, 16MHz etc.) , the C200 extension disappeared. I did not have time to look into it, so I called both EVEREX and the distributor of the NEAT 286 board. They blamed each other, of course, so I finally installed the EV-673 in a different machine. > > Background: The board passes all diagnostics and otherwise works fine. The > base system is a DELL 286 purchased about 1 year ago (and it had an option > for a vga, so the bios should have no problem with a vga) running > MS-DOS 3.3. I have RTFM and found nothing that seems to apply to this. > The original display system works fine. > You can try your board on a different unit if possible. There must be some kind of compatibility problem, and it always is customer's fault isn't it? :-) Qiwu Liu U of KS --- a very unsatified customer