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Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac
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Date: 
Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:52:04 GMT
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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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  Ancient and obscure hardware geekery (Was: Re: review: Radeon 7000 for BrickDraw3D, low-end Mac)
 
(...) Yeah, but the _cheap one_ is $250! I have a Lego habit to support! Seriously, though, one more reason why it wasn't a bad idea to replace the old 486 firewall with a hundred bucks worth of Linksys filtering router. :) On the other hand, I (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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