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Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:52:04 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm#NoSpam#.org
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William R Ward <bill@wards.net> wrote:
> > 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
Or, better, get a PC Weasel <http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html>, 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 detects the OS trying to
initialize its serial port, it switches over to using that. Way cool.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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