On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Simon Richter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a DS5000/125 at home, with said graphics card. Since a few
> weeks, the gfx board's self test fails ("Red screen test"), which keeps
> the machine from autobooting. Since I'm using a monochrome monitor anyway,
> I don't see a reason to exchange the graphics board. Is there any way to
> make the prom ignore the self test failure?
> 
>    Simon

	Did this error start when you switched to using a monochrome
monitor or did it just spontaneously happen? If it just happened, you
might have loose/dirty or a bad SRAM chip on the card. You might try
swapping board 1 with board 3 and see if you get a blue screen error
(Ha!) and report back. If it started happening when you switched to a mono
monitor, then there probably isn't anything wrong with the card, and no,
you can't make the PROM ignore a default test failure. You may however be
able to trick the card into thinking that the red signal is attached by
terminating it, but I don't know the innards of the Bt RAMDACS or if that
is even the real problem.


	Chris