tran@versatc.UUCP (Tony Tran) (03/10/89)
I was trying to install SCO 2.3.1 the other day, and as the system booted
up from the diskette, it came up with a banner, and a few seconds later,
the screen flickered and I had to abort the installation.
The PC was a PC-386 clone with a Video-7 VGA/EGA card, and a ITT EGA
monitor with a 40MB Seagate drive. The color was OK under DOS.
Did I mis-adjust some jumpers on the graphic card or did I miss
a driver somewhere?
Any help/hints on this would be appreciated.
Tony
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---eah@egvideo.UUCP (Ed Hew) (03/11/89)
In article <15932@versatc.UUCP> tran@versatc.UUCP (Tony Tran) writes: >I was trying to install SCO 2.3.1 the other day, and as the system booted >up from the diskette, it came up with a banner, and a few seconds later, >the screen flickered and I had to abort the installation. > >Did I mis-adjust some jumpers on the graphic card or did I miss >a driver somewhere? > >Tony >UUCP: {sun,ames,pyramid}!versatc!tran I had a similar problem a couple of years ago, when I went from a 286 to a 386 box running SCO Xenix (2.2.1 at the time). When I did my initial installation on the 386, I had a problem with the screen (it was monchrome with a generic mono video card) flickering intermitently. A simple trip to my clone dealer produced another manufacturer's video card, and my problem went away. I'm still using the same card 2 years later. I doubt that you have a driver problem; you may have mis-set a jumper (you'll have to check your specific docs for that), but in my case it was simply a card that would have worked fine in a 4.77 mhz xt, but should never have been installed (by the clone-maker) in a 20mhz 386. (They don't use that card any more.) --ed {edhew@egvideo.uucp -or- ....uunet!watmath!egvideo!edhew}