Newsgroups: bit.listserv.banyan-l
Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:02:33 GMT
From:         ps@JET.UK
Subject:      TM.EXE and 1MB Trident video Cards

Gary Sinton,

>One of our micros has difficulty running TN.EXE. The micro chirps, the video
>locks up, and the only way to revive the video is by rebooting the machine.
>We are running PC/TCP version 2.05 from FTP software under Vines 4.11 (5).
>Our microcomputers all contain 3C503 thinwire cards.
>I can avoid the above problem if I remove the TVGA card (which has 1 meg
>memory) from the machine and use another video card. This problem has
>happened twice in the past with other machines that had 1 meg video cards.
>But I was able to avoid the problem by trying different address-interrupt
>combinations on the NIC. Has anyone encountered this problem before?

I enclose the following information from our Help Pages, they are self
explainitory,

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | WA911 (Windows Accelerator Card with S3 Chip)
 |+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -+
  Using this Graphics Card in its default mode clashes with the Network Card,
  to rectify this problem change JP10 from 16bit BIOS (2&3 connected) to 8 Bit
  BIOS (1&2 connected).

  The drivers for this card are already supported on the Network Windows setup,
  simply use the "Setup" ICON to select a different vidio option. The High
  Resolution drivers for this card all start "S3".

  When fitted to an AMI BIOS 486/33 (See Also Lofgren entry) the Video Bios
  should be placed in RAM and then the RAM Cached, this will dramatically
  improve text handling.

      In the advance CMOS setup screen, enable VIDEO ROM SHADOW C000,16k
      ** DO NOT ** Enable VIDEO ROM SHADOW C400,16k (used by the S3 chip)

      In the ADVANCE CHIPSET setup screen, set SYSTEM BIOS IS CACHABLE enabled
      and VIDEO BIOS IS CACHABLE enabled.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | Trident TVGA
 |+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -+
  Using this Graphics Card in its default mode clashes with the Network Card,
  to rectify this problem place a Jumper on SW4 (normally open) SW4 is the
  "Enable Autodetect" jumper.

  The drivers for this card are already supported on the Network Windows setup,
  simply use the "Setup" ICON to select a different vidio option. The High
  Resolution drivers for this card all marked "Trident"

  To improve the text handing performance, the Video Bios should be placed in
  RAM and then the RAM Cached.

      In the advance CMOS setup screen, enable VIDEO ROM SHADOW C000,16k
      ** DO NOT ** Enable VIDEO ROM SHADOW C400,16k (can clash with the chip)

      In the ADVANCE CHIPSET setup screen, set SYSTEM BIOS IS CACHABLE enabled
      and VIDEO BIOS IS CACHABLE enabled.



Hope this helps!

Paul Simmonds
VINES Network Manager

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