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In article <544479149wnr@rfisher.demon.co.uk>
           ROBERT@rfisher.demon.co.uk "ROBERT JOHN FISHER" writes:

> 
> okay chaps here's my problem
> i have a Dell 425s/M with 8 meg of ram which was running a orchid 
> prodesigner 11s video card happily, i installed a revell sc400 sound 
> card and both worked fine, i then changed the slots and this is what i 
> get. during boot up the screen is black and mauve stripes (mauve being 
> the text colour of the video bios prompt) it then changes to black and 
> white stripes i can make out the dos prompt because of the flashing 
> cursor, but nothing i type can be seen, but the machine seems to be 
> working just with the video shot. i've tried changing the windows video 
> driver and booting into windows but nothing seems to make a difference 
> including updating the machine bios (dell customer support's idea) the 
> video card works in a friends machine using my monitor, but two other 
> video cards show the same fault on my machine. any suggestion except 
> peering into the slots, cleaning contacts etc gratefully received. 
>-- 
>ROBERT JOHN FISHER
>
>

Is your PC an EISA ?

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