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- From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
- Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Vantage related problems.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.210923.27995@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:09:23 GMT
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- In article <Bu545y.B9s@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,
- jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei) writes:
- >I have two questions about the ATI card I just purchased and would appreciate
- >any comments.
- >
- >1. When I used the accompanying diagnostic program ("test") in a DOS full
- > screen session, it reported 3 error messages: subsystem (14203), ram
- > (14206) and post ram examination (14216) failures. Is this normal when
- > the test is under OS/2? The self-testing during system boot-up is O.K.,
- > however. Oh, I did run SVGA ON first before the testing.
-
- I also have an ATI graphics Vantage, but I don't think I've ever
- had this problem. I also don't use the 'SVGA ON' settings, though.
- (I tried it, but things were better without it. Is there really a
- reason to have it? Please, no 'it's just supposed to be that way'
- comments!).
- I've never had *any* problems with this card under OS/2 in the
- 8514/a mode. If you suspect a problem with the card, you may want
- to boot into DOS if possible to run the diagnostic software again.
-
- >
- >2. I installed the bus mouse coming with the card and set every IO bus to
- > 16 bit (or auto selection) for power-up settings. After that, the
- > modem, which used to work with another SVGA card (Zymos), failed to
- > respond. I know this could be due to address or interrupt conflicts
- > although OS/2 did not report this kind of error. Adjusting the
- > switches on the modem to set it from com3 to com1 did not help. Now,
- > the temporary solution to this is to pull out the multi IO card,
- > which provides 2 com port, 1 game port and 1 parallel port. Although
- > I don't need this IO card now (since I use the bus mouse), I may
- > need it for a printer in the future.
- >
-
- I had problems with my mouse when I switched the IRQ to 2 (I can't
- remember what it was on originally). I fixed the problem by using
- the secondary address (instead of the primary one). You may want to
- try the same. This is done from the Install program, I think.
-
- >BTW, I am very impressed by this ATI card's performance. The Zymos card is
- >simply no comparison.
- >
-
- I agree! This card is by far the best I have seen (although the
- Ultra is probably a little faster). The 8514/a compatability makes
- it all the better. BTW, ATI is supposed to be coming out with OS/2
- specific drivers for the card soon (so they say...)
-
- >
- >Jason
- >--
- >Jason Lei |
- >Botany and Plant Pathology |
- >Purdue University | No fancy slogan found yet.
- >W. Lafayette, IN, USA |
-