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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Video Driver Change
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:48:53 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- William Heiser (heiser@acs.bu.edu) wrote:
- : I had my system set up (OS/2 2.0 without SP) with an ATI Graphics Ultra,
- : but moved the card to another machine. Now of course when I start OS/2
- : on that machine, it complains with an error about the video ... it now
- : has an ATI VGA 1024 (VGA Wonder) so of course it can't do the 8514/a that
- : the Ultra (and OS/2) were configured for.
- :
- : How can I get OS/2 to a bootable state again? I've tried booting from
- : the installation floppy but don't see anything there that would help
- : (but i don't really know what I'm looking for). I assume there is a
- : video driver file I can just copy over to C:\os2\system or something.
- :
- : Thanks in advance,
- : Bill
- :
-
- This is a very good question that I hope will get some constructive answers.
- During installing of the latest beta 2.1, after installing I did a selective
- install to install the proper video driver. When it gave me a choice of
- resolutions I thought (erroneously) "Well my card is fully populated in
- memory so I'll choose the 1MB version". However my card fully expanded
- only has 0.5MB! It was a disaster, the system came up but when the
- desktop appeared it was really a complete unusable mess. There was no way
- I could do anything (like run selective install over again). All I could
- think to do was reinstall which I did. That is NOT the way to correct
- such a problem. I'm glad it happened on the system the with CDROM and
- not the system I had to use 3.5" floppies to install.
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