OT [plug] ISA Video card

[John Knight]

Is this a recent motherboard by chance(within a year or two)? If so (Socket 
A per chance?), I've got a mate with the same problem. If other pluggers 
dunno what the problem is, then I'll ask him for you.

>
>At 02:30 PM 18/08/01 +0000, you wrote:
>>I'll happily swap you a couple of ISA ones for a PCI :)
>
>Not that many spare PCI's sorry :(
>
>Thanks to those that replied, I now have an old ISA card that works but
>still no joy with the original problem... the box hangs at "Verifying DMI
>pool data"
>I am on page 30 of google looking for the above line and most answers point
>to booting from a floppy.  I have tried every boot option, every BIOS
>option, cables plugged and unplugged, CMOS battery out and pins shorted,
>etc, etc and is still the same.  Any drives are autodetected ok, but no
>h/d, cd, or floppy will boot.
>I realise this may be off topic but if/when this machine lives it will be
>my server.
>Any clues from anyone please?
>
>
>>At 08:13 PM 17/8/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>> >
>> >Would any kind pluggers out there have a spare ISA video card that could 
>>be
>> >spared for a few hours?
>> >I have a FIC VT-503 motherboard with a suspect faulty BIOS in it.  I 
>>have
>> >found - "Try using an ISA VGA card and see wether that system will allow
>> >you to perform a Boot Block."  Only problem is that I only have one old 
>>ISA
>> >card and it is of unknown (not working?) quality.  Plenty of spare PCI's
>> >around but I'm hoping the ISA will let me flash the BIOS.
>> >I am in Roleystone and am happy to travel to nearby areas.
>
>
>regards,
>   Nathan
>
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