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- From: dshanks@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Shanks)
- Subject: Re: Dots in Windows
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.215228.15264@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:52:28 GMT
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- In article <C17n8B.Czs@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> brett@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Brett Morrow) writes:
- >The problem is that display get corrupted with usally black dots that start
- >appering in random points in different windows on the screen. If I then do
- >anything more dots appear, if I move the windows a lot of dots appear.
- >
- >If I completely turn the machine off and on this will sometimes fix it.
- >
- >I have following hardware:
- >
- >TSENG 4000 (Generic) VGA with 1 meg and HiColor chip set
- > using the Turbo TSENG driver from cica.
-
- I had a problem that sounds very similar to yours. The solution was to
- replace my video card (an Orchid ProDesigner IIs, also TSENG 4000
- based). The problem was that my power supply fan had failed and
- something (probably the RAM chips) on the video card got cooked. I
- replaced the card since we had a spare in stock. Had it been my home
- machine I'd probably have replaced the video card's RAM first before
- replacing the whole card.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- -Dave dshanks@nyx.cs.du.edu
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