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From: gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G. Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ATI VGA Wonder versus Multisync 3D
Message-ID: <1895@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 89 18:32:53 GMT
References: <411@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G. Wang)
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In article <411@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>
>I've just got a new ATI VGA Wonder card, and am using it with a NEC Multisync
>3D monitor.  My problem is that the ATI card doesn't consistently 
>recognize the monitor as a Multisync:  about half the time, it thinks I
>have an EGA, and the other half, a Multisync.
>
>Does anyone else out there with this combination know about any settings
>in either place that will fix this?  The NEC manual doesn't mention ATI,
>and the ATI doesn't mention the 3D, so I don't have any direct instructions
>on how to set either one up.  What I've done is to tell the card I have
>a Multisync, and set the monitor with "Mode" on, and "Color" auto, but
>other settings work just as well on the monitor, and the card seems to be
>ignoring what I tell it.
>
>Alternatively, does anyone know of any way in software to tell the ATI card
>that I've got a different type of monitor than it sensed?  Once it thinks
>I have an EGA, it refuses to act as a VGA, even if I run the VCONFIG program.
>
I also have an ATI VGA Wonder card with BIOS V3M-1.03... I use it
with a Goldstar Superscan 1440 with no problems... However, sometimes
the cable conntecting to the card gets loose and as a result the computer
boots up in the wrong mode, EGA mode as you stated.. What I do then is
re-adjust the cable and then re-boot the computer (A cold boot not warm)
and it works fine...

As for configuring the card, the program you want to use is VSETUP
*NOT* VCONFIG... Vsetup will do the low-level settings such as monitor
type, boot up video mode, mouse port, etc... VCONFIG is to be used
once you have all the hardware settings correct (say you just want
to change the current video mode to EGA, CGA or HERC)...
The manual does a fairly good job of explaining which files do what...

Hope this helps.


George Wang
University of Illinois
Gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu