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From: tims@starfish.Convergent.COM (Tim Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Video 7 / AWARD BIOS incompatability?
Message-ID: <1060@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 00:41:08 GMT
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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 I recently installed a VIDEO 7 FASTWRITE VGA card (rev 1.10) into
 a 286-20mhz system with AWARD BIOS ver N3.03

 There seems to be a BIOS incompatability problem. Symptom is: when
 booted up, 3 out of 5 times the system hangs, and it will not warm
 boot at all.  We replaced the Award BIOS with AMI and the system
 worked beautifully!

 Has anyone run into this type of problem and found a solution to
 it?  We called Video 7, they were no help.... said there should be
 no problem with Award BIOS ver N3.03.

 I will post a summary if anything interesting comes up.

 Thanks in advance!

 Tim Simmons (408)434-2843
 tims@starfish.convergent.com