Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!amati!!toddc From: toddc@.TV.TEK.COM (Todd Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Video 7 Requires Reset to operate Keywords: vga Message-ID: <1285@amati.TV.TEK.COM> Date: 17 Dec 90 19:43:51 GMT References: Sender: root@amati.TV.TEK.COM Reply-To: toddc@amati.TV.TEK.COM (Todd Carlson) Distribution: comp Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 27 In article steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) writes: > I have just purchased a Video 7 512k card for my VLSI-5 Award Bios 286 IBM Compat. The problem is that it will not operate on power up, but if you reset the machine via the reset key (Not the keyboard) it will operate. >Has anyone come across this, and somehow managed to solve it. > > Thanks in Advance, Steve h We have recently purchased several 386 machines and one 486 from a local supplier that used Mylex Motherboards in their systems, and we use Video Seven Products exclusively. We had a problem similar to yours, but only on the 486 machine. When it was fired up, the card only output on monochrome, but if you hit the RESET button, it would come back in color. (Only hitting the RESET button worked; not CTRL-ALT-DEL, nor cycling power.) We were told it was an incompatability/bug/snafu/act-o-god that they had between the Mylex Motherboard (486 only) and the Video Seven Card. ********************************************************************* Todd Carlson toddc@amati.TV.TEK.COM "He May be wrong, Computer Resources Coordinator but he's never in doubt." TV Division, Tektronix Inc. -K.L. Jones **********************************************************************