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From: strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Tim Bowser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is anyone using a ATI VGA Wonder card with a Northgate
Message-ID: <1651@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Date: 25 Feb 90 19:18:38 GMT
Organization: Enterprise Information System, Marquette, MI
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References: <1990Feb7.152103.14994@eplrx7.uucp> <511192@nstar.UUCP>

larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:

>In article <1990Feb7.152103.14994@eplrx7.uucp>, ward@eplrx7.uucp (Rick 
Ward) writes:
>> 
>> I have a Northgate Elegance 386-25 with a 150 Meg ESDI hard drive.
>> My problem is that I cannot get the $%&*#@ing machine to boot with
>> the ATI VGA card in it.  Has anyone out there gotten this video card 
>> to work with a Northgate computer?  Northgate seems baffled and I'm 
>> getting tired of waiting for them to figure it out.  BTW, the video 
card 
>> worked fine in a Zenith 386-25.

>I had the same problem which was in the PGC Ultra 14 VGA monitor supplied
>by Northgate.

   
Try this trick.

   With the ATI VGA running in another computer, set it's EEPROM for one 
of the NEC Multisync monitors.  The problem sounds like the card cannot 
determine what monitor is hooked up to it and locks up.  The reason I say 
one of the Multisyncs is that the card can determine there is a NEC 
monitor hooked onto it, *but not which model*.  This was a problem with 
the earlier ATI VGA Wonders, now corrected in the Rev. 1.03 and later ROM 
BIOS.

   BTW, select a NEC monitor type to correspond with what type you are 
running if it is multisynchronous.  If it isn't, then disregard all of 
the above.  Might try telling it to look for a generic VGA display in 
that case.  Hope something in here helps.
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