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Check the docs to the VGA card to see if it indicates you need a device driver or .COM program to run to activate the board. If it does, then you'll have to yank the board, install that software, then replace the board and reboot. If it doesn't require a driver or a .COM (many don't) then it should autoconfigure. Disable CGA and MONO, then run PCMONO as usual. Switch the monitor from taking input from the Amiga side to the VGA card, and you SHOULD get the IBM display. If you don't, then try fiddling with the various jumpers for different IRQs on the VGA board (see its docs for details). The BB requires certain hardware interrupts and IO ports for itself, and some VGA cards (like my really nice Stealth VRAM, alas) won't give them up, being greedy little bastards. In that case you're SOL. In general, the more vanilla a VGA card is (IE 512K rather than 1MB, normal VGA rather than SVGA, etc.) the better the chances are that it will work with your BB. Bob