ljg@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth 319/335-1960) (05/16/89)
The Tecmar VGA/AD video board apparently doesn't get along with the AST expanded memory manager in the AST Premium/286. A research engineer here ordered the above combo and was ready to begin beating it with a baseball bat when I happened by. We tried all the likely variations on i/o addressing, etc., to no avail. The Tecmar tech rep didn't believe that there could be a problem, but we had no difficulties when we swapped the VGA/AD with a Dell VGA card. Fortunately, the Tecmar board worked in the Dell 386 machine and both PC owners were happy in switching. (The Dell owner got more video options and 512k video ram, and the AST owner got a board that worked.) -Larry GRANROTH@IOWASP.PHYSICS.UIOWA.EDU
calhoun@cis.ohio-state.edu (robert r calhoun) (05/17/89)
The Genoa 512K VGA card doesn't work in it either. I was told to place the board in 1 wait state (E1) and it would work. Try it, it didn't work for me.