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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: NEC Multisync "GB-1" video card
Message-ID: <397@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 09:45:14 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.397
Posted: Fri Mar  6 09:45:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 11:56:19 EST
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: There are some very strange things going on here
Summary: update on GB-1 situation


I wrote an article complaining about having a lot of problems with
a NEC GB-1 EGA-compatible graphics board.  Closer inspection
revealed that the ram chips really were 64K * 4 bits.  The type
designation was actually 41-464, a numbering methodology that could
be easily confused.

The incompatibility problem turned out to be in the ROM bios that
was supplied by Tseng Labs.  Interestingly, the GB-1 was able to
run most graphics programs in a PC-Designs AT clone machine.  Tseng
Labs sent us a replacement BIOS ROM dated 1-6-1987, which allowed
windows and and EGA-paint to run on all our clone machines.

I'm not sure how one would obtain a recent EGA BIOS rom for the
GB-1 directly from NEC, as they have yet to return our calls.
Tseng is obviously not in the habit of providing customer support
for NEC!!, nor should they be.

The only program that I can not get to run correctly is Graph In
The Box, which will only display in CGA mode, even if set for EGA.

--Bill