First post, by georgeqgreg
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So, if anyone remembers the chronicles of me and my 486, well, you might like to know IDE on it is working again... I'm not sure why, it's the same controller as before. Maybe is was just in wrong?
So anyway, motivated by the working IDE (hooray, I can run software written after 1987...) I began rebuilding the computer. It was sure interesting. There's a few still issues to iron out, but one I wanna get sorted first, is the SVGA card.
See, I have two SVGA cards I can use in this computer. An ISA Tseng ET4000 and a VLB Trident TGUI9400. Despite Tseng's good reputation, and Trident's terrible one, the Trident card actually winds up being faster, I guess thanks to the VLB bus. (Well, VLB is so shitty, why would you use it if not for speed...) It also happens to be the card that was in my PC during my childhood.
But, when I installed the card into my PC, instead of seeing the boot screens on my monitor... I saw that my monitor couldn't even sync to what it's outputting.
So, is my card dead? Or is there something else wrong? Maybe I just did something wrong? Maybe someone who knows more than me can tell.
(How did I know IDE was working? I had previously left the ET4000 in the computer without realizing it.)