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- From: frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-Madison SRC (608)877-2332,-2001(FAX))
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Vantage related problems.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.140835.6924@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:08:35 GMT
- References: <Bu545y.B9s@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,<4403@drsrv1.hmi.de>
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- In article <4403@drsrv1.hmi.de>, pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
- >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 have the same problem with my ATI Graphics Ultra, i.e. the same error
- >messages. But only the first time I execute test.com! When I run this test
- >again it would proceed without problems. No idea whether this is normal.
- >
- >I set SVGA OFF now and rebooted but the same phenomenon is there.
- >
- >Wolfgang Fritsch
- >pfr@psun2.hmi.de
- I suggest that you boot DOS 5.0 from a floppy and try the ATI test program
- again. Since the test program works the ATI hardware at low level, it may
- encounter problems (perhaps) from a DOS session under OS/2.
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