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From: smarc@mas.UUCP (Marc Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: installing UNIX SYS V/386..Video problems??
Summary: Tandon Dual-mode CGA card is garbage
Keywords: CGA
Message-ID: <37@mas.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 20:36:12 GMT
References: <7186@ozdaltx.UUCP>
Organization: Emtronix Data Services, Randallstown, Maryland
Lines: 51

In article <7186@ozdaltx.UUCP>, ian@ozdaltx.UUCP ( Philadelphia) writes:
> 
> 
> Hello net-landers,
> Help!!!
>  
> I have just purchased SCO UNIX SYS V/386 rel 3.2.2. I
> have an Intel 386 16 megahertz before I purchased this
> product I called SCO to find out if my equipment was
> compatible I have a Princeton Graphics Systems HX-12 CGA
> monitor. The video card is made by Tandon. I have also

Isn't the HX-12 an EGA monitor? Maybe that's an HX-12E? I have
a Princeton HX-12E, and it is an EGA monitor.

When using this with ATI EGA Wonder, I had to turn switch 8 off
on the display card or I had the same problems. Switch 8 controls
some extended functions of the card.

> tried to use an ATI graphics solutions card (CGA) as
> well. My problem is that when I go to install SCO I start
> with the boot disk it loads the data then prompts me for
> the files system disk when I put this in and hit enter
> about 2 seconds later the screen goes funny. It looks
> almost like an vertical hold problem. If I adjust the v-
> hold on the monitor I can make out some of what is being
> written to the monitor. If I take the selections and
> [rest deleted]

I used a cga monitor at one time with a Tandon Dual-Mode Video card
which gave me many problems. This card interferred with serial
communications and caused other grief as well.

> Thanks in advance.
>                          Scott Scheingold
>  
> Voice Phone  215-732-7685
>  
> Where I post and read from I am known as ian.  

Hope this helps.



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