New Intense 3d BIOS prob???

Has anyone had a problem using the new Intergraph BIOS? I loaded the new BIOS and W95drivers and was pretty happy.... at first. The annoying flicker at boot-up and shut-down was gone, The 'pause' for the self-diagnostic test (with the monitor asleep) was gone, etc.. I then tried Moto Racer GP(Win 95) and all was fine. And THEN I went to DOS for Nascar2. Scrambled video as if the refresh rate was wrong. Same for Indycar2. I ran the Renutil.exe program and IF I used renutil 0 or renutil 1 I could get Nascar2.exe to work BUT not the rendition version. At other settings neither version would work. I've since flashed back to the previous BIOS and all is fine except the annoying flicker is back... Anyone else experience this? Ideas? Alan http://www.kiva.net/~akh/simshop.html

>Has anyone had a problem using the new Intergraph BIOS? <snip> Ya, The new 103 bios squishes my N2 screen in Win95 and in DOS. I haven't tinkered with it much yet to see if I can work around the problem. For now, I'm running the 74 bios and the new drivers. It seems to be working fine. Mike Radler Member - Hawaii Ace League http://www.dithots.org/hal

> <snip> > Ya, The new 103 bios squishes my N2 screen in Win95 and in DOS. > I haven't tinkered with it much yet to see if I can work around the > problem. For now, I'm running the 74 bios and the new drivers. It > seems to be working fine. Atleast I'm not alone! I went back to the 79 BIOS but it doesn't 'fix' the flicker at boot-up that was there on the 74 BIOS also (but 'fixed' on the 103). I can live with it, but getting rid of it would get rid of the funny looks I get when I tell people I put the system together myself and then boot it up and the monitor flashes a couple of times...And I 'know' they're thinking "My Packard Bell" doesn't do THAT!" ;o) ....but then again their CD Rom is probably not working either.... ;o) Alan http://www.kiva.net/~akh/simshop.html

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>Has anyone had a problem using the new Intergraph BIOS? I loaded the new >BIOS and W95drivers and was pretty happy.... at first. The annoying >flicker at boot-up and shut-down was gone, The 'pause' for the >self-diagnostic test (with the monitor asleep) was gone, etc.. > I then tried Moto Racer GP(Win 95) and all was fine. And THEN I went to >DOS for Nascar2. Scrambled video as if the refresh rate was wrong. Same >for Indycar2. I ran the Renutil.exe program and IF I used renutil 0 or >renutil 1 I could get Nascar2.exe to work BUT not the rendition version. >At other settings neither version would work. >I've since flashed back to the previous BIOS and all is fine except the >annoying flicker is back... >Anyone else experience this? Ideas? >Alan >http://www.kiva.net/~akh/simshop.html

Yes, I also upgraded the BIOS to the new version, and my ICR2 is now squished -- someting like 640x200 (Hey, it's the Letterboxed version!) So I reinstalled the old 74 version and problem went away. Needs just a little bit more testing, I think. Robin

Yes, I've had the same problem. My N2 screen with the new bios is only about 2/3 what it should be, it wiggles annoyingly and the image is extremely dark.

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> > <snip> > > Ya, The new 103 bios squishes my N2 screen in Win95 and in DOS. > > I haven't tinkered with it much yet to see if I can work around the > > problem. For now, I'm running the 74 bios and the new drivers. It > > seems to be working fine. > Atleast I'm not alone! I went back to the 79 BIOS but it doesn't 'fix' > the flicker at boot-up that was there on the 74 BIOS also (but 'fixed' > on the 103). I can live with it, but getting rid of it would get rid of > the funny looks I get when I tell people I put the system together > myself and then boot it up and the monitor flashes a couple of > times...And I 'know' they're thinking "My Packard Bell" doesn't do > THAT!" ;o) ....but then again their CD Rom is probably not working > either.... ;o) > Alan > http://www.kiva.net/~akh/simshop.html

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> Yes, I've had the same problem. My N2 screen with the new bios is only > about 2/3 what it should be, it wiggles annoyingly and the image is > extremely dark. > > > <snip> > > > Ya, The new 103 bios squishes my N2 screen in Win95 and in DOS. > > > I haven't tinkered with it much yet to see if I can work around the > > > problem. For now, I'm running the 74 bios and the new drivers. It > > > seems to be working fine. > > Atleast I'm not alone! I went back to the 79 BIOS but it doesn't

'fix' > > the flicker at boot-up that was there on the 74 BIOS also (but 'fixed' > > on the 103). I can live with it, but getting rid of it would get rid of

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> > the funny looks I get when I tell people I put the system together > > myself and then boot it up and the monitor flashes a couple of > > times...And I 'know' they're thinking "My Packard Bell" doesn't do > > THAT!" ;o) ....but then again their CD Rom is probably not working > > either.... ;o) > > Alan > > http://www.kiva.net/~akh/simshop.html

The only problem that I have had so far is that the mouse leaves a trail in the menu windows. After that, it runs great... -- Mike's Nascar World http://www.netins.net/showcase/mpete/nascar.html Stop on by, what can it hurt?