JJ,
> That's definitely a custom video mode. Not yet listed in RBIL.
I can imagine. The Optiplex 745 is just 14 years old (2006). :-p
Though to me thats not the problem. What is is that I need to iterate thru
all video-modi to find out what their resolutions are (figuring out if it
actually supports text and/or graphics (with or without mouse support) is a
next step), and now have a 'puter/BIOS which just crashes on something that
basic. :-(
That the returned video modi are not actually supported by the same BIOS /
INT 10h (trashed text, no pixel plot) is yet another problem. :-((
> Have you tried running the test from pure DOS?
Not on the XP machine (the partitions are too big for true DOS).
> I suggest you check the video BIOS. e.g. with DEBUG command:
Below are the strings that I found :
0000:0010 30 30 9C 18 E9 8D 17 00 40 00 B0 0A 30 30 49 42 '00..é...@.°.00IB'
0000:0020 4D 20 56 47 41 20 43 6F 6D 70 61 74 69 62 6C 65 'M VGA Compatible'
0000:0030 20 42 49 4F 53 2E 20 03 5A 00 6A 00 78 00 8B C0 ' BIOS. .Z.j.x..À'
...
0000:0AB0 24 56 42 54 20 42 52 4F 41 44 57 41 54 45 52 2D '$VBT BROADWATER-'
0000:0AC0 47 20 20 20 64 00 30 00 37 07 81 00 30 00 00 00 'G d.0.7...0...'
0000:0AD0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 '................'
0000:0AE0 42 49 4F 53 5F 44 41 54 41 5F 42 4C 4F 43 4B 20 'BIOS_DATA_BLOCK '
...
0000:0B90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 6F '..............Co'
0000:0BA0 70 79 72 69 67 68 74 20 28 43 29 20 32 30 30 30 'pyright (C) 2000'
0000:0BB0 2D 32 30 30 33 20 49 6E 74 65 6C 20 43 6F 72 70 '-2003 Intel Corp'
0000:0BC0 2E 20 41 6C 6C 20 52 69 67 68 74 73 20 52 65 73 '. All Rights Res'
0000:0BD0 65 72 76 65 64 2E 0D 0A 0D 0A 00 00 C0 03 08 04 'erved.......À...'
...
0000:0F90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B A6 00 21 30 00 52 60 '.........¦.!0.R`'
0000:0FA0 53 49 2D 31 33 36 32 2D 41 00 00 00 01 05 70 1D 'SI-1362-A.....p.'
...
0000:5390 49 6E 74 65 6C 28 72 29 42 72 6F 61 64 77 61 74 'Intel(r)Broadwat'
0000:53A0 65 72 2D 47 20 47 72 61 70 68 69 63 73 20 43 68 'er-G Graphics Ch'
0000:53B0 69 70 20 41 63 63 65 6C 65 72 61 74 65 64 20 56 'ip Accelerated V'
0000:53C0 47 41 20 42 49 4F 53 00 49 6E 74 65 6C 20 43 6F 'GA BIOS.Intel Co'
0000:53D0 72 70 6F 72 61 74 69 6F 6E 00 49 6E 74 65 6C 28 'rporation.Intel('
0000:53E0 72 29 42 72 6F 61 64 77 61 74 65 72 2D 47 20 47 'r)Broadwater-G G'
0000:53F0 72 61 70 68 69 63 73 20 43 6F 6E 74 72 6F 6C 6C 'raphics Controll'
0000:5400 65 72 00 48 61 72 64 77 61 72 65 20 56 65 72 73 'er.Hardware Vers'
0000:5410 69 6F 6E 20 30 2E 30 00 60 01 61 01 62 01 63 01 'ion 0.0.`.a.b.c.'
It doesn't tell /me/ anything I can use though :-) What is it telling you
?
> And if you don't mind, share the BIOS.
I don't mind. Though I'm not so sure that putting a binary dump like the
above or base64 encoded into a newgroup message would be a good idea. So,
where (email) do you want me to send it to ? (due to JS being disabled on my
'puter it doesn't play nice with most filesharing servers. And for one-off
drops I don't like to register either)
I just tried to put the binary into the "aioe.text" newsgroup (in an attempt
to keep it outof this newsgroup), but the server rejected it with a "body to
large" remark.
Regards,
Rudy Wieser