> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 00:12:17 -0600
> From: Markus Blumrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Hello? EGA? RLL?
> I have what I "believe" is an EGA monitor
> here and it hooks up fine to the 9-pin
> connector, but does not sync properly with the card..... I see 2 images
> simultaneously with one of the images wrapping
> around the side of the screen. The card works fine on my multisync 15" monitor.
What you describe is exactly what is seen with a CGA monitor on EGA or
higher resolution. Hook it up and type "Mode CGA" at a DOS prompt.
It should work - but keep two things in mind: EGA was a big improvement
over CGA, which is really too chunky for graphics. Also, EGA monitors
and cards are really quite rare these days; there are probably 40 CGAs
for every EGA found.
> Also - the IDE drive in this machine has died - and I was hoping to use an old
> clunker RLL or MFM or whatever it is that I pulled out of an XT.
This probably won't happen. When the 286 came out, it was found that
old XT HD controllers couldn't deal with the higher bus speed of even the
slowest AT - so another 8 or 16-bit disk controller was purchased for the
faster machine. ( 8-bit controllers for a 286 AT would work just fine with
the older 8088s found in virtually all XTs. Backwards compatability.)
I believe that Jameco Electronics ( http://www.jameco.com ) still carries
new MFM controllers; it's the only way you can be sure one will work with
the higher bus speeds of a 286/386/486.
- John T.
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