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SOLVED: Problem using 2 CVW monitors!

#995
From: R70007
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 1991 14:17
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Some time ago I wrote ...

>Hello to you all,
>
>
>   My sad story begins on the day I chose to debug with CVW using 2 monitors,
>   VGA and monochrome.
>
>  I connected a Zenith mono monitor (+ Hercules card) to my 25Mhz Elite 386
>  with 2Mb and an Everex color VGA card.
>
>  Windows ran in enhanced mode.
>
>  I tryed the DOS command : mode mono   ,and it worked just fine.  BUT ...
>  when I double-clicked the CodeView icon...SHAZAM... the screen went out of
>  tune and when I stopped the motion by turning the monitor's Vertical, the
>  picture was unclear with additional enlarged background images.
>  Useless.
>
>  The same thing happened (exactly) on my Elite AT Turbo 286 with 1Mb and
>  Video Graphics Array's VGA-III running at Windows' standard mode.
>
>  Here I tryed another monochrome monitor, a IBM XT one.
>
>  It simply turned itself off...
>
>
>  I smell a software problem, but where ???
>

   The problem was solved when we changed the VGA cards to a TRIDENT MVGA-2000.

   The Windows origional VGA.drv is used.

                        thanks anyway,

                                Ilan        r70007@barilvm.bitnet
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From: R70007@BARILVM.BITNET
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Subject: SOLVED: Problem using 2 CVW monitors!
Message-ID: <91001.161705R70007@BARILVM.BITNET>
Date: 1 Jan 91 14:17:05 GMT
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
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