All-In-Wonder 16 DOS Help?

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Jake

I sure hope a wizard can help me here. I'm a tech working on a older piece
of process equipment that uses a 386 processor with DOS 6.2 and a EGA-like
video output. The monitor recently died and I'm trying to find a better fix
than just buying a used EGA monitor.

Video resolution required is 640x400. The system uses a proprietary video
adapter now on a ISA bus. I want to replace it with a VGA adapter.

Here's the question... I have several old pulls of ATI All-in-Wonder 16
cards that are ISA and look like they will output both VGA and EGA, so I
want to set this thing up to use a more-standard VGA monitor. Since all this
stuff is older, I can't find a lot of info on the Web or Usenet about what's
required here. Do I need an ATI setup program for DOS, and is it available
somewhere? Should I look for a different type of ISA card?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.... Thanks.

Jake
 
Jake said:
I sure hope a wizard can help me here. I'm a tech working on a older piece
of process equipment that uses a 386 processor with DOS 6.2 and a EGA-like
video output. The monitor recently died and I'm trying to find a better
fix than just buying a used EGA monitor.

Video resolution required is 640x400. The system uses a proprietary video
adapter now on a ISA bus. I want to replace it with a VGA adapter.

Here's the question... I have several old pulls of ATI All-in-Wonder 16
cards that are ISA and look like they will output both VGA and EGA, so I
want to set this thing up to use a more-standard VGA monitor. Since all
this stuff is older, I can't find a lot of info on the Web or Usenet about
what's required here. Do I need an ATI setup program for DOS, and is it
available somewhere? Should I look for a different type of ISA card?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.... Thanks.
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First thing is to find out what you really have. The first All-In-Wonder
was a PCI board. What you have sounds like a VGA Wonder 16. It should
work fine in text mode if you just plug it in and attach a newer monitor.
If you need graphics IIRC it was supposed to be register-compatible with
the IBM VGA which means that it should work with standard VGA drivers.

If you need the utilities, search on "VGA Wonder 16" and you should find
several sources--ATI had them on their site until their recent redesign.
 
John,

You are correct.... the cards mentioned are Wonder-16... not All-in-Wonder.

A cursory search did not yield the utilities, though. Perhaps someone knows
of an FTP site or something where this stuff might be located?

Thanks for your reply, and the correction (-;.....

Jake
 
I'm pretty sure if you contact ATI they should be willing to help. You could
always use the "About this site" - website feedback link as well to advise
them you couldn't find the software you need.

Paul
Jake said:
John,

You are correct.... the cards mentioned are Wonder-16... not
All-in-Wonder.

A cursory search did not yield the utilities, though. Perhaps someone
knows of an FTP site or something where this stuff might be located?

Thanks for your reply, and the correction (-;.....

Jake
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