From: Paul Kelly (longword at domain indigo.ie)
Date: Tue 06 Apr 1999 - 03:00:29 IST
Paul Jakma wrote:
> 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.
> solution: boot from linux bootdisk and utility floppy, then,
> strings /proc/kcore | grep VGA
Alternate strategy: Use DOS/Windows DEBUG to examine the first few
hundred bytes of the video BIOS. The DEBUG command would be 'd c000:0',
optionally followed by a few more 'd' commands to see later blocks of
BIOS.
Paul.
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