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- From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Vantage related problems.
- Summary: Modem works again.
- Message-ID: <Bu8KAA.Jwp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 01:32:34 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.210923.27995@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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- I am the original poster of these problems.
-
- In article <1992Sep7.210923.27995@news.iastate.edu> TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
- >jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei) writes:
- >>
- >>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 don't know this "SVGA on" stuff, either, but just try. It seems not make
- any difference to me.
-
- >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.
-
- I tried DOS and tested the card with the supplied program. No problem at
- all, as in the power-up testing. But the problem remains under OS/2 so it
- should be OS/2 related. I don't know if this is a "bug" or something else
- goes wrong.
-
- >>
- >>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.
-
- I do use the secondary address and IRQ 5. It turned out that this has nothing
- to do with the Vantage. It can be sloved by including (3,3E8,4) in config.sys.
- I don't know what happened, but it did not work for the first time so I
- changed the modem to com1. Today I tried com 3 and included (3,3E8,4) again,
- and it worked.
-
- Thank those giving me suggestions!
-
-
- Jason
-
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