Re: Success (?) and observations on OLD hardware

Could be you are having a connector problem, or there may be an
intermittant solder connection to that particular bus slot. The video
board may not use that signal path, so it works fine.

Bill Martin


Brad Heuver wrote:

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> From: Brad Heuver <bheuver@...>
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> My 386 now recognizes the DRO board! (Sometimes) I now can get the 386
> to recognize my board at least 1 of 4 times when I run the program. All
> I did to revise the situation was to move the video card to another ISA
> slot, and install the DRO board into the slot that previously held the
> video card. Is still is not 100%, but thats OK, as I can always get
> there, eventually. I suspect that something is wrong with the old 386 to
> make it behave so. Oddly, the monitor works fine in the slot that the
> DRO didn't like.
> I also tried a few things on the old 286-AT. It will run the old
> versions of txt_dro.exe, the 2/99 and 4/99 programs, but the latest
> won't run on the old machine. That's not a real loss, with the value of
> any of these old beasts.
>
> Brad Heuver
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> 734-52-33480 bheuver@...
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