Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wucs1!frisse
From: frisse@wucs1.wustl.edu (Mark Frisse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Using EGA with Zenith Z-151 PC
Keywords: EGA Zenith
Message-ID: <718@wucs1.wustl.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 89 20:17:57 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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Can an EGA be used with a vintage-1985 Zenith Z-151 PC?  I have such a
PC -- I have no way of knowing the version number of its ROM-BIOS, but
the "monitor" function is copyright 1984. I installed a VEGA Deluxe
EGA card (vintage 1986 from Video 7) and Multisync monitor (original
version) using the card and monitor configurations that Video 7
recommends for this specific PC.  Turning on the computer then makes
the monitor come up with an orange border and a flashing white
center...no text or anything else.  The keyboard is also unresponsive
(except to Ctrl-Alt-Del).  (The monitor is influenced in SOME way by
the computer, since rebooting causes a transient rearrangement of
meaningless rectangles on the screen.)  This monitor/adapter
pair works just fine on an ancient IBM PC with an updated BIOS ROM.

Any ideas?  Zenith Data Systems has been no help (why should they
break tradition?).  Since I don't have an account that can access the
newsgroup, please mail any response to me at this address:

      beard@ibc3.wustl.edu 

Thanks.