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Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 00:01:03 -0300
To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
From: Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: Pentium MB [off-topic]
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At 06:48 AM 4/8/98 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Capriotti wrote:
>
>> In my hands I have a Pentium MB, whose PCI slots are not working at all.
>> 
>> The original owner probably pulled the video card while the system was
>> energized.
>
>He did that?

We think he did.

>
>Try the card in a computer whose PCI slots are known to work if you have
>access to one.
>
>> The disk controller - embeded IDE, which I believe to be PCI - is working
>> fine, the system runs smooth with ISA cards, but when one plugs a PCI Video
>> card, no video signal is generated.
>> 
>> FreeBSD runs fine also, and so does WInblows.
>
>How do you know these two OSes run fine if you can't see any video? Do
>you have a different card that you have tested. If a different card
>works, then nothing is wrong with your main board.
>
>Perhaps I am missing the point.
>

Actually, yes. Sorry I didn't provide further details. Let's go then:

I've got this MB from another person and he told me: "It's yours, Enjoy !"
and told me about the above problem.

I've removed my working PCI video card from my computer, pluged it on the
deffective MB and started it. Nothing.

Then I removed the PCI card, inserted a ISA Video card, and Voila ! Images
on the monitor !

I believe that other PCI cards won't run as well, though I didn't connect
any network card, for instance, to see if FBSD detects it.

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