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From: tuck@iris.ucdavis.edu (Devon Tuck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: ODT Hardware incompatability!
Summary: Compaq 386/20 w N.1 bios + Video 7 VRAM
Keywords: VGA Video 7 Compaw ODT
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Date: 6 Aug 90 18:21:57 GMT
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Reply-To: tuck@iris.ucdavis.edu (Devon Tuck)
Organization: Hydrologic Engineering Center, Davis CA
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Watch out for this combination:

	SCO Open Desktop / SCO Unix 3.2
	Compaq 386/20 with N.1 (latest) revision Bios
	Video 7 VRAM VGA card

I was assured that this card would work with Open Desktop, but apparently
when we upgraded our Compaq 386, 20 mhz system with the latest revision
bios chips (which is the only way we can use a 110 Meg hard drive) we lost
the ability to boot (much less run) the package with the Video 7 VRAM VGA
card.  If I swap VGA boards, or I swap chips, the system works.

Solution, we must return our Video 7 card and buy something else, probably
a Paradise VGA card with 512k.


Devon Tuck
tuck@iris.ucdavis.edu