fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) (10/18/89)
Thanks again to everybody who tried to help me with my boot problem (no boot from floppy disk but from the hard- disk). Finally I got the information from ISC tech support. After several other things they suggested to move the 16bit-VGA card (ORCHID Prodesigner Plus) to an 8bit-slot. After doing that everything was ok and I was able to boot from the floppy. After that I looked in the VGA manual and found a section about boot problems with 16bit BIOS setting. They suggest to set a jumper to 8bit mode and use a program (VGA Speed) to use a shadow RAM to get the 16bit speed (probably only under DOS?). I tried that and again the system didn't boot (the disk controller is a Western Digital WD1006V-MM2). I would actually like to use the 16bit mode because of speed. Another strange behaviour is that everything works under DOS, booting with the VGA card in the 16bit slot and in 16bit BIOS mode was no problem. Any comments? Fritz