garys@techbook.com (Gary Scott) (07/17/90)
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Shortly after Windows 3.0 came out I posted a request for information on
running Windows with an ATI 386SX machine in enhanced mode. For those who
took the time to make a suggestion thanks, unfortunetly no solution was
forthcomming.
Actually, I was able to solve the problem after much haggling with ATI the
solution turned out to be extremely simple:
turns out that some ATI SX boards were shipped with 286
bios's. ATI with a little prodding sent a new set of bios chips out,
actually this took a call to the president of the com"pany. Sometimes
you gotta bend the rules"
2)Additionally there was a jumper incorrectly set on the
motherboard. jumpers J8 & J9 need to be set to 32K page memory
allocation not 16K. This particular ATI MB can be configured in
about 20 ways with a multitude of different memory chips, basically
its a NIGHTMARE!!
Anyway to make a long story short if you have a system that wont run
windows in enhanced mode look at hou your memory is configured evidently
Windows needs 32K pages and/or boundries.
Would I buy another ATI computer? After this problem you got to be kidding.
WARNING: To the best of my knowledge the ATI video card and modem people
(Canada) have NO connection with the ATI computer Bozos in Sunnyvale.
good luck
garys@techbook.com
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Decision Technology garys@techbook.com
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