From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 7 15:49:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14553 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:49:43 -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 PAA14548 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:49:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk) Received: (qmail 25744 invoked from network); 7 Jul 1998 22:49:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Boothman.easynet.co.uk) (194.154.100.117) by papaya.mail.easynet.net with SMTP; 7 Jul 1998 22:49:37 -0000 Received: by Boothman.easynet.co.uk (VPOP3 - Unregistered) with SMTP; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 23:14:50 +0100 Message-ID: <35A29DDA.522704E5@boothman.easynet.co.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 23:14:50 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allan Alford CC: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old EGA Video Card & Monitor References: 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 Allan Alford wrote: > > Your problems are happening before the operating system even > has a chance to do anything. They're hardware and/or BIOS > related. Absolutely. I realise this has nothing to do with the OS, but I thought you folks would be able to answer my questions since they are hardware related. > I bet you have a 720k floppy and that you told the BIOS it's > a 1.44. You could well be right. But I can't even get the system to enter it's BIOS setup program, so I have no way to change this setting even if that's the problem. Another -hardware list member suggested that the BIOS setup program may use a VGA font, and that might prevent the setup program being used on EGA hardware. What would happen if I booted the machine with no drives? i.e. With nothing but a keyboard and video card/monitor? Would the machine enter its BIOS setup program OK? These questions may be BIOS specific so my BIOS is a AMIBIOS 1992 Version 1.00.03.BS0T Thanks for your help -- 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