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From: "WILLIAM FRANKLIN FLUSEK" <flusekw@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: Problem with XGA Board
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.163012.22813@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Organization: Indiana University
Date: 29 Mar 91 11:28:00 EST
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Hi again,

I am a bit embarrassed at present.  I did finally get the XGA board working 
properly in my Model 70.  I think that I must have read at least a dozen 
times that the board is a busmaster board, but it never seemed to take 
control of the system.  Well, after it got rebooted without a monitor on 
the system board VGA, it did in fact take over and ran all of the video out 
of its port.  I works just fine.  

As far as the model 80 goes, I have gotten a note that suggests the 
solution is a system board replacement.  Since the machine is well out of 
the warranty, I imagine that I will stick with the 8514 board in it for 
now.

The only other comment that I can make at this point is that IBM needs to 
look seriously at NON-INTERLACED display systems.  There are somethings 
that I have pulled up in Windows, OS/2 and AutoCAD that can give you a 
headache in less than a minute due to the flicker.  But the high resolution 
really makes Windows look like a REAL environment and not something from a 
toy.  (This comment has been made my me and to me several times recently).

Thanks for all your help,

Bill Flusek, Indiana University

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