[ale] Best way to get dual display working (take 2k)

[Greg Clifton]

Oh, and one more thing, do you have the latest BIOS installed on the mobo?

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pulling out the way back machine, I recall the first computer I ever built
> (actually upgraded). I started out with a genuine IBM PC XT as I recall, at
> least it did have a genuine IBM Color Graphics Card and Quadchrome CGA
> monitor. So I bought a hot new 12MHz motherboard & CPU and put it in the box
> and no video! I actually went through 3 motherboards till I got one that ran
> the ISA bus at a slower clock speed closer to what the original IBM PC did
> (4.77MHz w/ 4 wait states as I recall). The problem was that my fast NEW
> motherboard was too fast for my slow OLD  CGA card. Perhaps you are
> experiencing a similar race condition (hot card w/ lots of RAM not finishing
> initializing before the POST moves on to the next device?). Maybe try
> setting the BOOT options in BIOS to the slowest possible, ie, do NOT enable
> "quick boot" mode and also try with BIOS defaults (the failsafe, not the
> optimal).
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com
>> > <mailto:ale at pcartwright.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 01/06/2011 12:35 AM, Greg Clifton wrote:
>> >     > I always prefer to grab a new video card out of the anti-static
>> >     bag by
>> >     > the mounting bracket which is attached to the ground plane of
>> >     the board
>> >     > and then touch the power supply in the computer with my other hand
>> >     > (while still holding the graphics card) to equalize the charge. Of
>> >     > course, it should go without saying that you should unplug the
>> power
>> >     > cord to your power supply before you install the new card, but I
>> >     have
>> >     > been known to forget about the 5V standby power.
>> >
>> >     I would go one step further & grab the anti-static bag THEN touch
>> the
>> >     power supply, THEN open the bag & grab the card by the bracket.
>> >     My mother just called me yesterday ( Hartford,CT). She was trying
>> >     to add
>> >     her printer to her new laptop. She said it went POP and the screen
>> >     went
>> >     blank. First I asked if she had it plugged into an UPS. After a
>> small
>> >     exchange of questions, finally I got the answer YES. I also asked
>> >     about
>> >     humidity & static. She said it WAS staticy, as she had not turned
>> >     on her
>> >     humidifier yet. I told her how sensitive electronics are, and how
>> she
>> >     should ground herself ( discharge) any static before touching the
>> >     laptop
>> >     case, otherwise BAD THINGS HAPPEN.... Anyway, turns out the
>> >     battery was
>> >     bad, she got a new one, and it is working again. I need to remind
>> >     her to
>> >     fire up the humidifier! Even down here in GA, my humidifier pumps
>> out
>> >     about 3-4 gallons per day, I've got to fill those 1.2 gallon tanks
>> 2-3
>> >     times every day!
>> >
>> >
>> >     --
>> >     Paul Cartwright
>> >     Registered Linux user # 367800
>> >     Registered Ubuntu User #12459
>> >
>> Just read your humidifier comments. I used to live in Florida and had
>> participated in a demo/study at one of my jobs where we worked inside a
>> factory/plant environment. Even though the outside air/humidity was
>> around 67% - 80% normally we still had static problems inside. People
>> tend to think that just because they live in a humid sub-tropical
>> environment that's the outside, inside you normally have air
>> conditioning, which is essentially a big dehumidifier. The study showed
>> that our inside humidity was no more than 50%. Now a days those
>> environment systems usually also have humidity controls as well as
>> temperature.
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