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From: pjt@cpac.washington.edu (Larry Setlow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: VGA card clashes with extended memory
Message-ID: <PJT.90Jul4214909@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 04:49:09 GMT
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I recently bought and installed a 2 the Max 16-bit VGA card (I only
have a mono monitor, but it was too cheap to pass up).  My problem is
that it screws up my extended memory:  if I try to use a ramdisk, the
ramdisk fails (Data error on drive E: abort, ...), but as part of
failing it seems to confuse the display card (the card forgets where
the cursor should be, primarily, though I think I've seen other
problems that point me in this direction).  Is my card busted?  Am I
an idiot?  Has anybody seen anything like this before?  Should I take
the card back and beat on the store's head?

The card uses the Oak chipset if that means anything or matters, and I
couldn't get it to work except in 8-bit mode (I'm pretty stupid about
hardware, and the manual wasn't particularly useful).

Help, anybody?  (as always, I'll summarize if it seems warranted)