First post, by Galacnor
Hello again!
I had such great help with the last problem that I brought to you guys that I have another problem to share that I hope you can help me fix.
My oldest PC is currently a custom build that I inherited from my late grandfather, he was, to speak frankly, a genius and skilled mechanical engineer. Born in 1930, one of his final fascinations was the world of computers, and there's evidence of him tinkering on them from the mid 1980s onwards.
He built this system sometime in the early 90s, and it seems to have ran until at least around 2000. When I got it after he passed it was already non functional, it appeared to me at first that the video card might be bad, so I bought a drop in replacement for the one already inside the case. However, with this new card, the computer still doesn't display a picture.
When I got the system, I noticed that it was attached to some very old IBM monitor of some kind, probably EGA. The monitor was pretty beat up, so I tossed it before shipping the computer home, now all I have at home are VGA monitors, and I wonder if the card is outputting to the EGA or Svideo looking connector in the middle. Any ideas?
I've moved the card around inside the case to different ISA slots, still to no avail. The barrel cell backup battery was leaking and caused some minimal surface corrosion on the board, and I worry that the board might be damaged, however, the computer does pass post without beep code errors when the card is installed, when it's pulled out it gives the display card not found (1 long, 8 short beeps), so I'm fairly confident that the board is working correctly.
The motherboard seems to be Generic, but is marked "M326 V 5.2" and has chips from Toshiba (Chip 2 - TC6154HS) and SARC (RC4019A4 9324). I've got a genuine AMD AM386DX-40 in the processor slot and no math coprocessor. There is alot more to the computer, but I'm trying to get a display first before I install the other I/O cards.
Does anyone have documentation for the VGA wonder+ cards (mines the 1mb version with the 4th revision ati chip)? And is there anyone who knows what to do next?
Thanks
Alex.