Looking for Formac ProMedia 40 ROM Rip

[stynx]

Perfect - a second card arrived here yesterday and had exactly this issue. Your timing is impeccable

Another difference is how the card selects a default setting. I find 1.0.6 selects a higher refresh rate by default which exceeds the capabilities of my elderly 4:3 LCD. This actually means I can't easily use 1.0.6 as most of not all of the boot key combinations also assume that my monitor is capable of high refresh rates. I sure there is a way around, but for now I just used the newer ROM.

Quite fascinating. I have the exact opposite situation. The 126 Rom seems to default to 75Hz while the 106 Rom defaults to 60Hz, in my case. I use an Extron RGB2HDMI 300A which can do almost everything you throw at it (15Khz - 120Khz no problem) and a Hauppauge standalone HDMI-recorder. The Extron RGB2HDMI 300A converts even the strange 31Hz resolutions of the 126 Rom but sadly shifts them so much to the right that i cannot get everything on screen.

 

[Phipli]

Quite fascinating. I have the exact opposite situation. The 126 Rom seems to default to 75Hz while the 106 Rom defaults to 60Hz, in my case. I use an Extron RGB2HDMI 300A which can do almost everything you throw at it (15Khz - 120Khz no problem) and a Hauppauge standalone HDMI-recorder. The Extron RGB2HDMI 300A converts even the strange 31Hz resolutions of the 126 Rom but sadly shifts them so much to the right that i cannot get everything on screen.

That's really odd!

Yeah, I've barely used the 1.0.6 ROM because I just end up in unsupported modes I'm using a 1280x1024 LG panel from the early 2000s. I need to replace the caps on the power board in my ViewSonic that can handle just about any video signal including from a Toby, which is useful (most LCDs don't like the output from a Toby).

 

[Phipli]

There is a jumper that has to be closed for the mac to work. If the jumper is not closed, the mouse pointer will not move and be invisible

On my card, the jumper in the same location is actually pre-populated with a header and called J4. It connects to pin 151 on the ViRGE chip, which is "Enable Feature".






So something to do with board expansion features. Formac must expect it to be enabled.