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From: chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is anyone using a ATI VGA Wonder card with a Northgate
Summary: Booting w/ATI VGA on 386 machine
Message-ID: <1439@chansw.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 01:36:05 GMT
References: <1651@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Organization: Chan SmartWare Computers, Worcester, MA
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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 also installed an ATI VGA card in one of my customer's systems, and
it wouldn't BOOT -- system would beep a couple of times signaling video
failure.  The system wasn't a Northgate, but it does have a C&T chip
set (does the Northgate?). 

The fix:  disable VIDEO BIOS SHADOWING on the motherboard.
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