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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:03:43 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Resetting SNAP

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Please excuse my ignorance and lack of memory here, but I don't recall having had to do this before.

What is the procedure, when you need to install a different video card (that is also supported by SNAP), or xfer a boot HDD to a different computer that has different video ? (These are _not_ fresh installs.) I vaguely recall that this may require _first_ resetting eCS to basic VGA ? {Which is kind of cruel & unusual punishment.} Other than that, I don't know. And, of course, I could not even do that step first, in the situation of moving the boot drive from a computer that failed, over to a new one. Hopefully it would still boot up, in some fashion, but there would have been no prior opportunity to reset it to VGA.

Where does SNAP store its info about what video card you have installed ? Are there video-card-specific entries -- or drivers -- that wind up in Config.Sys, based on one's installed video ?

At least in regard to eCS, there is the very realistic hope of being able to retool Config.Sys to where everything works again, whereas for the Dark Side there are umpteen drivers in inaccessible places -- of all kinds, not just video -- that will be different, and the chances of Windoze being salvageable are far worse.

Just out of curiosity, if anyone has been using Panorama VESA, is that more amenable than SNAP for changing one's video ?

Jordan

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Please excuse my ignorance and lack of memory here, but I don't recall having had to do this before. 

What is the procedure, when you need to install a different video card (that is also supported by SNAP), or xfer a boot HDD to a different computer that has different video ?  (These are _not_ fresh installs.)  I vaguely recall that this may require _first_ resetting eCS to basic VGA ?   {Which is kind of cruel & unusual punishment.}  Other than that, I don't know.  And, of course, I could not even do that step first, in the situation of moving the boot drive from a computer that failed, over to a new one.  Hopefully it would still boot up, in some fashion, but there would have been no prior opportunity to reset it to VGA. 

Where does SNAP store its info about what video card you have installed ?  Are there video-card-specific entries -- or drivers -- that wind up in Config.Sys, based on one's installed video ?

At least in regard to eCS, there is the very realistic hope of being able to retool Config.Sys to where everything works again, whereas for the Dark Side there are umpteen drivers in inaccessible places  -- of all kinds, not just video -- that will be different, and the chances of Windoze being salvageable are far worse.

Just out of curiosity, if anyone has been using Panorama VESA, is that more amenable than SNAP for changing one's video ?


 Jordan

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