Andrew Grillet wrote in a message to All:

 AG> Hi All,

 AG> Total horror:

 AG> I was running Warp Connect with fixpack 40, on a VESA bus 486 
 AG> when my VGA card suffered hardware death. 

 AG> I ahve more Vesa VGA cards than is good for a normal human, so 
 AG> I simply swapped it out. Unfortunately, it was a different 
 AG> brand. This meant attempting a switch back to VGA. This failed 
 AG> - the scan rate was bizarre.

 AG> Obviously time for a re-install.

 AG> When I came to reinstall, it was disallowed - "the version you 
 AG> are attempting to install is a lower revision than the one 
 AG> installed". 

 AG> The only solution was a total wipe of the OS partition. (There 
 AG> may have been others, but I did not have the time to look).

What about hitting alt-F1 (I think?) when you get the "boot blob" and
selecting plain vga as a video mode?

It's in there.

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