Damn it. Just no easy solution in sight. After failing to get my P4 working properly on a lanmate 386 I got my hands on (no way to turn off the on-board video), I *finally* got the 486 SBC backplane system I ordered from eio.com[1]. Plugging in a monitor shows a mem count and a CTRL-ALT-S to enter setup. Unfortunately, the keyboard doesn't seem to work, so I can't get into the CMOS settings. If I put in the P4 controller card, the P4 works fine. However, the P4 *only* works if I have a monitor plugged into the VGA port at boot time - otherwise it just stays with a cursor in the top left. What the hell? I know there are 4 pins on the 15pin VGA cable for "Monitor ID". Anyone know how these work, exactly? I've tried shorting the monitor ID pins to ground to 'fool' it into thinking it is plugged into a monitor, but no luck. Also, posted in the past was a link to Rehmi Post's PIC code to control a P4 - I have of course lost it. Can anyone re-post it please? | Donald Papp, T.T., MCP | Support Analyst | OA Internet Inc. |[1] Took them many months to get themselves together enough to mail me my stuff. I won't even get into all the phone calls I made to them. And to top it off, they screwed up my order and didn't ship my power supplies - which I have paid for. Screw them all to the last man! Anyway, it has a board that attaches to the SBC to provide 4 COM ports, a parallel Port, a VGA port, a keyboard port, and a sound connector. The bios works, but has a few extras that relate to the machine's origin as a point-of-sale system. Others have gotten win95 to work on it no problem after adding an I/O board to get an HD controller. -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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