ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC. CUSTOMER SUPPORT Ref ID: 2573 ATInfo-BASE

The following information applies to IBM OS/2 WARP 4.0

TOPIC: HANGS BOOTING OS/2 WARP 4.0 USING A 3D RAGE II WITH 8MB SGRAM

PRODUCT: 3D PRO TURBO PC2TV 8MB

PROBLEM: System hangs loading OS/2 WARP 4.0 with a 8MB 3D RAGE

            PRO TURBO installed.

——————————————————————— SOLUTION: The following procedure will enable you to use the

        3D PRO TURBO 8MB card with OS/2 WARP 4.0.

        1. Remove the memory module from your 3D PRO TURBO card.
        2. Boot to VGA display mode using the following procedure,
            During the OS/2 Warp boot process, pressing ALT-F1 when the
            block cursor appears in the upper left hand corner will
            display a boot menu.  Selecting "v" will boot OS/2 WARP in
            VGA display mode.
        3. Uninstall and re-install the 3.1 OS/2 display drivers.
        4. Shutdown OS/2 WARP.
        5. Re-install the memory module onto your 3D PRO TURBO card.
        6. Restart OS/2 WARP.
        !  You should be able to access all display modes up to 1280x1024
           at 16.7 million colors.

        Note: This issue is currently under investigation and will,
              hopefully, be resolved with the next release of the
              OS/2 display driver.

For more information contact ATI Customer Support and

  reference ATInfo-BASE file:  2573

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