Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!vtserf!creatures!creatures.cs.vt.edu!pbrown From: pbrown@vtopus.cs.vt.edu (Patrick R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Boca (ET4000) SVGA Problems Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 91 18:03:57 GMT Sender: usenet@creatures.cs.vt.edu Distribution: comp.windows.ms Organization: Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science Lines: 33 I just received my brand new Boca Super VGA card w/1MB RAM. I installed the Windows drivers and now everything is going haywire... My configuration: 386-25 AT-clone, AMI BIOS, 8MB RAM, Toshiba 105&65 MB RLL drives (not that this will make a difference), Boca SVGA w/ 1MB RAM, MAG Computronic multisync monitor. The problems: The system absolutely refuses to come up in 386 Enhanced mode. With any of the extended-mode drivers, the brag screen comes up, then flashes about a second later, and then the screen blanks. Nothing further comes up. Windows will come up normally in standard mode, but I'm getting UAE's at the rate of about one a minute. Each time, it freezes up the system and a reboot is the only alternative. This also happens in real mode. Diagnosis: God only knows. I would guess it's the drivers or something in the card's ROM. I don't believe that the card is DOA - I am currently running UNIX with X11R4 up, and am utilizing the (highest-resolution) 1024x768x256 mode as I write. It seems to be working fine in this mode. Any ideas? Pat -- -- Patrick R. Brown __ _________ email: pbrown@csgrad.cs.vt.edu \ \ / ___ __/ Virginia Tech: smail: 375 New Kent Rd. \ \/ / / / "Po but Proud" Blacksburg, VA 24060 \__/ /_/ (703) 552-4016