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- Good evening,
-
- I would like to pass on my installation experience with the GATEWAY2000, and the ATI Ultra Pro
- Graphics card in combination with OS/2 2.0.
-
- I have the GATEWAY2000, 4DX2-66V. The graphics card is the ATI Ultra PRo, local bus graphics
- card.
-
- The OS/2 installation procedure is "LOOKING" for a VGA card equivalent to the IBM 8514
- graphics adapter. The ATI Ultra Pro graphics card, as shipped from the GATEWAY2000
- factory is operating at a much higher performance level than the 8514 graphics card operates
- at.
-
- The OS/2 installtion works in two parts. The first part of the installation is the basic operating
- system installation. The second part of the installation, boots the installed OS/2 base and
- proceeds to allow further software installation and customization. The factory settings for the
- ATI Ultra Pro graphics card will work with the base OS/2 install. However, when OS/2 proceeds to
- boot itself for the second part of the OS/2 installation, all visuals will collaspe into edge to edge
- screen noise. The second part of the installation is looking for an 8514 compatable VGA card.
- After talking with the GATEWAY2000 and IBM support reps, I finally hit on the sequence of events
- that will allow OS/2 to be installed on this combination of hardware.
-
- 1. Prepare a bootable DOS floppy. You will need it. My Gateway2000 system came with DOS-6 and
- the 'A' drive is a 3.5 inch drive. I formatted a 3.5 inch floppy with the "/S" option, and copied
- command.com to the floppy, along with a modified DOS config.sys and autoexec.bat file.
-
- 2. Insert the ATI Ultra Pro graphics diskette into drive 'A'. Switch to drive 'A' . Type 'Install'.
- When the ATI menu comes up on the screen, the first item highlighted will be
-
- 'SET POWER-UP CONFIGURATION'
-
- Press the 'ENTER' key to 'OPEN' this item. On the next menu, the first item highlighted will be
-
- 'MONITOR TYPE'
-
- Press the 'ENTER' key to 'OPEN' this item. on the last menu, use the 'down' arrow key until
- the item 'VGA OR PS/2' is highlighted. Press the 'ENTER' key to accept this item. Save
- the configuration and get out of the ATI application.
-
- 3. Insert the OS/2 installation disk and follow the OS/2 installation procedures. OS/2 will eventually
- boot itself and you can complete the second part of the installation. When the second part of
- the installation has completed, OS/2 will try to boot itself again to bring up the 'INSTALLED'
- OS/2 system. The hard drive will cycle for a few seconds, the screen will go to white and
- every thing will stop.
-
- 4. Insert your bootable floppy into the 'A' drive and reboot. After DOS has come up, insert the
- ATI Ultra Pro graphics diskette into the 'A' drive. Switch to drive 'A'. Work down through the
- menus as described in step two. Pick the CrystalScan 1024 x 768 option and save the settings.
-
- 5. After you have exited the ATI settup, reboot your machine. OS/2 should come up and be ready
- for use.
-
- Hopes this helps.
-
- Jackson Desmukes.
-