pjt@cpac.washington.edu (Larry Setlow) (07/05/90)
I recently bought and installed a 2 the Max 16-bit VGA card (I only have a mono monitor, but it was too cheap to pass up). My problem is that it screws up my extended memory: if I try to use a ramdisk, the ramdisk fails (Data error on drive E: abort, ...), but as part of failing it seems to confuse the display card (the card forgets where the cursor should be, primarily, though I think I've seen other problems that point me in this direction). Is my card busted? Am I an idiot? Has anybody seen anything like this before? Should I take the card back and beat on the store's head? The card uses the Oak chipset if that means anything or matters, and I couldn't get it to work except in 8-bit mode (I'm pretty stupid about hardware, and the manual wasn't particularly useful). Help, anybody? (as always, I'll summarize if it seems warranted)