Hi Roy,

-=> Roy J. Tellason wrote to Andrew Grillet <=-


 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.

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

 RJT> It's in there.

That is what I meant by 'switching back to VGA' - it failed - presumably
some piece of software still attempted to write to registers in the old
card which did something different in the new one, despite the Alt-F1 and 
'switch to VGA and continue' option.

Andrew

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