Re: TRIDENT VGA PROBLEM

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From: STEVE REMINGTON - COMPUTER SUPPO...
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 06:18

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In article <1994Feb24.150040.4675@lulea.trab.se>, anders@lulea.trab.se (Anders Eriksson) writes:
> I've got a Trident 8900 1Mb card using the 640x480x256 driver (win 3.1
> version) and I've had the same experience. It seems to that the errors
> occurs more frequently when using a lot of doswindows and ALT-ENTERs.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
My suggestion is buy another video card with a different chip set.  I had
continual problems with my Trident SVGA card but when I changed it to a Cirrus
Logic chip set card all of my problems disappeared (no other part of my system
changed).

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From: sosr@cc.newcastle.edu.au (STEVE REMINGTON - COMPUTER SUPPORT TECHNICIAN)
Subject: Re: TRIDENT VGA PROBLEM
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