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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- From: df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!eyrie.demon.co.uk!df
- Subject: Re: Problems with 2nd video card [Address space / Bus size conflict]
- Reply-To: df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
- References: <1jj6im$hfs@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Summary: Hercules monochrome slows down 16 bit VGA
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:07:53 +0000
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- In article <1jj6im$hfs@agate.berkeley.edu> ereiss@ocf.berkeley.edu (Edward Reiss) writes:
-
- [summary of use if 2nd monitor for MS-Windows debugging under C/C++ 7 deleted]
-
- > I purchased an inexpensive (and returnable) monitor and card, to
- > see how my system (33MHZ 486 clone - "NICE" motherboard with Eteq chipset)
- > would handle them. Lo and Behold - whenever the second monochrome video card
- > is plugged into its slot, my main monitor slows down by at least 40%. Whenever
- > it is removed, the system behaves normally.
-
- The Hercules card is an 8 bit card which happens to live in the same 128k
- address space block as your (assumed) VGA card. This forces the VGA card
- to work in 8 bit (as opposed to 16 bit) mode. This is due to the Hercules
- seeing all access to the VGA memory and indicating that the memory access's
- are in 16bit mode.
-
- > Can someone tell me how to get around this problem.
-
- Don't know that you can without hardware surgery (a Soldering Iron).
-
- > My system does have one unused serial port. Can I plug the monochrome
- > monitor into this port and route the output of the debugger to it?
-
- The video signals through the serial port? Answer no.
-
- You may be able to use the serial port for serial debugging, I think that
- Borland's Turbo Debugger allows this but I don't know about MS C7.
-
- > Was it the type of monochrome card (cheap Hecules compatible with graphics
- > capabilities) that slowed it down?
-
- Yes, see above.
-
- > Would a different card remedy the situation?
-
- Maybe, but would probably have to me some sort of 'Non Standard'
- configuration. I don't know if a real MDA acts in the same way.
-
- >
- > Ed Reiss
- > ereiss@cory.berkeley.edu
-
- DF
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- Derek Fawcus (G7FVS) df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
-