Help! Dots on my screen.

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From: Matthew William Clarke
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:22

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My computer just recently started displaying dots (lit up single pixels) in
a line about 2/3 of the way down the screen, and in other random places on
the screen.  These dots don't go away even if I reset the computer, and
they are present in the BIOS setup screen.  If anyone has any ideas about
what kind of problem this might be, or how to diagnose it, please e-mail
me.  My setup is:

386/40 Motherboard w/ AMI BIOS and Forex chipset
Northman SVGA 4MVD monitor
Trident TVGA-8900 Vga card with 1 meg ram

I've also booted the machine under both MSDOS and 386BSD Unix, and the dots
exist in both, so I doubt that it is a virus.  I believe it is either in
1) the screen
2) the vga card
or
3) the bios

Any suggestions, comments, or replies will be a big help.

P.S.  Also, the dots only appear on certain letters in certain locations
on the screen.

Thanks,
mattc@leland.stanford.edu

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Subject: Help! Dots on my screen.
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