Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 23:14:50 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> To: Allan Alford <aa@thinkwell.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old EGA Video Card & Monitor Message-ID: <35A29DDA.522704E5@boothman.easynet.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980707125501.9351A-100000@junior>
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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 <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> 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
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