VGA Wonder -- what's wrong?

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From: Tom Haapanen
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 1990 02:16

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Several of our older 386s have ATI VGA Wonder cards in them.  They were
causing serious problems when I'd try to display a DOS window on the screen in
800x600/16 mode: the screen woul stretch to about 150% vertically, and wrap
around at the top.  Since they were old v3 boards with an outdated BIOS, I
called ATI tech support and ordered a new BIOS, hoping that would cure it.

Now, however, I am just evaluating a a brand-new VGA Wonder+ --- and it 
does the same damn thing!  Starting up a DOS session in a window freaks out
the card, and the only way to unfreak it is to exit Windows.

Is this for real?  Did I miss something in the installation?  Should I just
stay away from ATI?

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
[ "i don't even know what street canada is on"               -- al capone ]

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Subject: VGA Wonder -- what's wrong?
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