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- From: caruso@gbi01.enet.dec.com (Angelo Caruso)
- Subject: Re: Xceed30 8-bit and System 7.1 ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.225935.9993@janix.unt.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <C0B588.7vA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:00:18 GMT
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- In article <C0B588.7vA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes...
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- >Is anyone out there using system 7.1 with the Xceed 30 8-bit card in the PDS ?
- >
- >After installing the card in my SE/30, I can boot from System 6.05 on a
- >floppy, but not from the 7.1 Installer 1 floppy or from 7.1 freshly installed
- >on the hard disk.
- >
- >Just to make matters worse, It booted fine from 7.1 on the HD the
- >first time after installation, until I installed the "Virtual Video"
- >cdev and changed the setting to 1K by 1k. I don't have any external monitor
- >attached or the internal grey-scale adapter. After removing the cdev, the
- >HD system still does not boot.
- >
- >More generally, can the presence of a card in the PDS influence the start-up
- >process at boot-time in the absence of any INIT/cdevs for the card ?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
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- I upgraded a couple weeks ago. No problem here. By the way, what is the Virtual
- Video ?
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- Angelo.
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