First post, by jal
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This is a long shot, but anyway...
I've purchased an EGA card (this one, looking exactly like Vlask's Paradise Systems PEGA2A) on eBay which the seller said they've tested. When I tried it in my NuXT however, the computer doesn't boot. It hangs right after the memory check. According to the BIOS listing, after memory check it searches for option ROMs. Of course the EGA has ROM on it, but I'd expect if the ROM was at fault, I wouldn't have output on my screen at all (the video ROM is searched for and intialized). So, the BIOS hangs itself most likely during the scan for option ROMs (there's a single one in the NuXT, for the IDE BIOS - but when I disable searching for the F000 range, it still hangs).
(Note that the NuXT works fine with either the built-in PC/104 Trident VGA or an ATi Small Wonder Graphics Solution CGA/Plantronics clone.)
Anyone here by any chance have experience with EGA clone cards in a NuXT? Did they run smoothly? Anyone has any idea what could be wrong with this combo of EGA and NuXT?
JAL