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Subject:	Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:20:38 GMT
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foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu (J.D. Forinash) writes: > In article <GuoEp5.L6t@lugnet.com>, Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote: > > not that bad - most bioses I saw give an option saying "ignore errors at > > boot" - it'll still beep, but will move on... then again, I think there > > actually is some sort of video card installed in the box, though I've no > > idea, really... > > That'll get you around stuff like "Keyboard not detected" (or the > IBM version, which was "No keyboard present, press <F1> to continue"), or > "I have no idea what floppy drive you're talking about", but that BIOS > setting won't get you past the stuff that requires beep or LED POST codes, > like base 64k ram failure or no video card present. You have to get far > enough that the BIOS is actually running the show before that setting does > you any good. So put a Hercules MDA video card in it! :-) (That's the old monochrome standard, from the days when color monitors were rare on PC's.) I've got a storage locker full of old computer crap that I'd love to get rid of, but I can't quite bring myself to just scrap it. Free to anybody who wants to pay shipping (I'm in Mountain View, CA) or if you're local, can just pick it up... I've got several VLB and ISA video cards, serial/parallel/IDE/floppy cards, slow internal modems, NE2000-compatible ethernet, 286/386/486 motherboards w/ CPU, AT and ATX cases, monitors, etc. etc. etc. --Bill. -- William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

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		Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
(...) Which one's the standard? :) The MDA was the original PC display adapter (stood for, amazingly enough, Monochrome Display Adapter) and didn't do graphics at all. Two color, text only, 80x25. Hercules, on the other hand, was a different spec (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
(...) Or, better, get a PC Weasel (URL), which emulates a video card (VGA for the PCI version, MDA for the ISA) and a keyboard during boot and sends the data <-> its serial port -- allowing you to access the BIOS config program. And then when it (...) (22 years ago, 22-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
(...) That'll get you around stuff like "Keyboard not detected" (or the IBM version, which was "No keyboard present, press <F1> to continue"), or "I have no idea what floppy drive you're talking about", but that BIOS setting won't get you past the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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