[ILUG] Re: PC's

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Mark O'Herlihy wrote:

  Sean McGrath wrote:
  >    I'll probably go with gateway, they're cheaper and dont have integrated
  >    graphics cards or nics, like dell.
  
  Yes they do, well graphics cards anyway. I was installing NT on a new
  machine yesterday. In it goes no problem. OK graphics drivers. Hmm. I
  wonder what it is. Look though docs that came with the machine. Nothing.
  Look though bios. Nothing. Open machine look at motherboard. Find
  grpahics chip with great big heatsink glued on top. No good. I finally
  had to go to there web site ordering system to track down that it was a
  Nvidia Riva chipset. Very annoying that.
  
  //\/\ark
  
installing NT?? you unwashed heathen! :)

solution: boot from linux bootdisk and utility floppy, then,

strings /proc/kcore | grep VGA

and

strings /proc/kcore | grep BIOS

should give some clues. 

(opening machines... jeez, thought computer nerds'd be a bit
lazier..) :)


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