Sidekick prob. on 6300

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From: R.SHARPLES
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1986 13:33

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I have a problem with Sidekick.  I have a PC 6300, 20 meg Seagate HD, 640K
MS DOS 3.1, and Sidekick ver. 1.56.  Sometimes when I exit Sidekick (with
ESC) it covers the screen with thin white and purple horizontal lines.
Any text typed appears in double wide, double high purple letters on top of
these lines.  I can correct this by typing "mode co80".  If I reenter 
Sidekick and exit again, it does it again.  

The only way I have found to fix the problem is to turn the machine on and 
off a few times and eventually it will work properly.  The machine passes 
all of its diagnostics normally on boot up and all other graphics (GEM, 
Lotus, Games) work normally.  I have Sidekick on my 6300+ at work and it 
works great there.

Has anyone else had this problem with a 6300?  Is it a warrenty problem?
Any advice would be appreciated.

Russ Sharples
homxb!gritz

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Subject: Sidekick prob. on 6300
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 09:33:59 EDT
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