From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 7 10:06:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29368 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papaya.mail.easynet.net (papaya.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA29346 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:06:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk) Received: (qmail 27141 invoked from network); 7 Jul 1998 17:06:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Boothman.easynet.co.uk) (194.154.100.117) by papaya.mail.easynet.net with SMTP; 7 Jul 1998 17:06:01 -0000 Received: by Boothman.easynet.co.uk (VPOP3 - Unregistered) with SMTP; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:23:00 +0100 Message-ID: <35A22A4A.AE77E6B7@boothman.easynet.co.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 15:01:46 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Old EGA Video Card & Monitor Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: VPOP3 V1.2.0d Unregistered Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! Still not got FreeBSD Installed. :-( I'm trying to get the hardware together, it's kind of difficult when your budget doesn't reach 3 figures! :) At the moment I've got a Gateway 2000 3 year old P5-90 (90 MHz Pentium non-MMX) with 16 MB EDO RAM. So what I did is I took the floppy drive, video card and monitor (EGA) from a very old 286. The trouble is that now when I turn the system on, it seems to recognise the floppy drive, but then it just stops. No "Please insert system disk" style message. If I press F1 to enter the BIOS setup utility, then a message pops up saying "Entering Setup.....", but then the machine stops again before reaching the setup program. Basically I'm wondering if a 7/8 year old EGA video card is OK in a relatively new PC? It's displaying text OK, but something is preventing the machine from completing it's POST checks. I'm going to try swapping around floppy drives and monitors/video cards from another machine to see if I can work out what's broken. Does anybody have any comments on what I'm trying to do? Are there any reasons why the old card or floppy drive can't work? Thanks!! P.S. Please e-mail answers back to me directly and CC to the list. Mind you, you guys probably do this anyway. -- Andrew Boothman http://www.boothman.easynet.co.uk/andrew/ PGP Key available from public servers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message