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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Problems with STB EM-16 VGA board
Message-ID: <836@redford.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 19:20:44 GMT
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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Recently I bought a STB EM-16 VGA board.  It is also sold the PowerGraph
VGA board.  It is based on the Tseng Labs 4000 chipset and uses AMI Bios. It
has 1MB on board.  It comes with great drivers (640x480x256,800x600x256,
1024x768x256) for windows 3.0.  My problem:  I have a WD1006/SR2 (RLL) HD/FD
controller, and a ST277R (65M) drive.  My system is a 386SX with Pheonix BIOS
(Chicony motherboard).  I have disabled bios on my drive controller.  When 
the system boots up a different sound beep sound right before bootup, and 
when my system is up, I can't write to the drive.  When I replace my VGA card
with my old EGA card, the problem goes away.  Is this a problem with my
VGA card?  Or is this just a incompatibility between the Tseng labs chip set
and my controller.  Any help would greatly be appreciated.

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