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Article #1398Re: TRIDENT VGA PROBLEM
From: Darren R. Alomes
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 00:00
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 00:00
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In article 1@cc.newcastle.edu.au, sosr@cc.newcastle.edu.au (STEVE REMINGTON - COMPUTER SUPPORT TECHNICIAN) writes: > 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). > > -- > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Steven Remington - Technical Officer | > | Department of Sociology & Anthropology | > | University of Newcastle | > | New South Wales 2308 Australia | > | email address: sosr@cc.newcastle.edu.au | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | "Of all of the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most." | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Here, Here change it it to a Cirrus Chipped card and your problems will dissapear I had similar problems with 10 of the mothers on my system and after much heated debate with the supplier of the system, changed them over and no problems. Darren Alomes +----------------------------------------------------------------------++ | Darren Alomes + | LAN/WAN System Consultant + | Sea-Land Service + + Australia + + email via alomes@polly.cs.flinders.edu.au + +------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,6d0c5d872a13cb48 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 102bfa,6d0c5d872a13cb48 X-Google-Attributes: gid102bfa,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-03-07 16:00:38 PST Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,aus.computers.ibm-pc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!think.com!cass.ma02.bull.com!as02.bull.oz.au!brahman!tmx!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au!polly!alomes From: alomes@ist.flinders.edu.au (Darren R. Alomes) Subject: Re: TRIDENT VGA PROBLEM Sender: @frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au Message-ID: <1994Mar8.000038.22836@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 00:00:38 GMT Reply-To: alomes@ist.flinders.edu.au References: <1994Mar2.171849.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au> Organization: Flinders University of S.A. Lines: 40