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- Subject: Re: HELP ! Can't Put Video Cards in 16-bit slots
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.164406.1@ualr.edu>
- From: djlewis@ualr.edu
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:44:06 GMT
- References: <1e7jevINN1mq@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- In article <1e7jevINN1mq@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, akula@ecst.csuchico.edu (Kuo Han Chang) writes:
- > My first video card, an OAK VGA with 256K, worked just fine for me. After
- > collecting some $ I got a new one, also an OAK, but with 1 MB on board. This
- > one can only be put in 8-bit slots. When I plug it into any of the 16-bit
- > slots, nothing happened when I switched on the power. Now I got another
- > board, an ET-4000 with high-color, the same problem occured again. Ok, I've
- > RTFMed and set every jumper on the 'correct' position but still got the
- > same result. Strange enough, my oldest video card works perfectly either
- > in 16-bit or 8-bit slots.(of course, the 8/16-bit jumper on this board was
- > set to its correcponding position before insert it in 8/16 bit slots)
- >
- > My system is a 386/Dx-25, with 8MB RAM, AMI bios dated April 90. Could anybody
- > helps me out of this ? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
- >
- > Kuo
- Try disabling irq 2 on the video board. It could conflict with another circuit.
-
- Don Lewis
- djlewis@ualr.edu
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