Re: PC164LX

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 11:55 AM 09-30-98 +0200, Pascal
Bouchareine. Where you stated:
>i just had heavy problems with my *lovely* station.
>well, look at this:
>
>anybody was happy in an happy land of SCSIuw, S3Virge, DEC ether card,
>and my HD was nicely *scrunch scrunch*ing, then i decided to change
>vi video card, for anything to be much more beautiful.
>
>well i plugged a CIRRUS LOGIC CL-GD5446BV into the first PCI slot, 
>instead of the S3 virge. hophop, i booted and *doh!, black screen*.
>i putted back the S3 into this first PCI slot, and nothing happenned.
>well i put it into the 2nd PCI slot, it worked again (but DUX was unable
>to find my vga device so i ran into a sympathic dumb terminal mode).
>
>this morning, *before* i took my caffeine (i bet i should take my coffee
>before any important action..), i tryied to plug the CIRRUS into the 2nd
>PCI slot. Black blahblah. And the 2nd PCI slot not to work anymore, as
>it did with the first.
>
>Any card i put into the 2 first slots won't boot. (scsi, ethernet..)
>	
>Anyone with a funny idea is welcome (mmhh.. don't send my a mail with
>"try tu put it into the 3rd PCI slot", i won't.)
Remove ANY cards from those first 2 slots.
Boot the machine ( well as far as it gets, anyway)
Shut it down and power it off.
Put your original cards back where they belong.
Boot again.
This should work.
These puppies "remember" last configuration.
Removing the cards should flush this configuration.

Problem with the black screen is that the BIOS x86 emulator doesn't know
about the Cirrus Logic based video card you tried.


Cheers,

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