First post, by TheRealAnubis
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Good morning all,
I got a Trident VGA card (9000C) for my 5150, and of course, it wouldn't boot up - long tone. I was then advised about the ALE fix, which ties the ALE pin on the card to +5V. It works! There' s one small glitch, though - it doesn't want to cold boot about 98% of the time. When I cold boot, the VGA BIOS screen comes up, but never goes away and the system hangs. If I leave it hung for a few minutes, then cycle the power it clears the VGA BIOS screen and works fine. I thought it may be a cap issue as it had 5 of them and they're 30 years old, so I got new ones from DigiKey and re-capped it. No change. Any ideas what may be the problem? It feels like the card is either ahead of, or behind the PC. I tried the reset button idea and it didn't make a difference (grounding pwrgood momentarily). I've also tried all of the combinations possible on the jumpers. Zero cold boots, leave it hung a few minutes, cycle the power, boots fine. I just don't want to wear my power button out chonking it on and off.
Also, the card has 512K on it, but only 256K is recognized. This may be a limitation of the 5150, though.
>edit< I forgot to include this - there is now an 820 ohm resistor between the ALE and the +5V, but there's no difference in the cold boot problem..
I'll attach a picture of my actual card, but note, the jumper settings are not the same now!
Thanks!