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- From: mhuth@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Huth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Boca Super VGA loses sync in fullscreen DOS
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 19:11:34 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- Jay, I'm having exactly the same problem, I can work around it by allowing
- the windows or dos session to complete booting before switching away from it.
- I only get the problem if I boot the system with a dos or windows program open
- or if I switch away from a program using alt-esc while the program loads.
- I've used several video cards including a Paradise 1024 card without changing
- the problem. I reported it on Compuserve and was told that they'd never
- heard of such a thing. Tim suggested that there are known bugs with cards
- that cantain 512k (if I read his message correctly). Both of the card's I've
- tried do have 512k on board. That clearly isn't the problem with your dad's
- system.
-
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- >My father recently replaced his VGA with a Boca Super VGA board, based on the
- >ET4000. He's tried with 2.0 GA, SP, and the 2.1 beta, and in all three, at any
- >resolution, when he brings up a fullscreen DOS session (including a fullscreen
- >Windows session), the monitor loses sync; an Alt-Home, followed by the Enter
- >key, brings up *two* reduced size WPS images side-by-side, apparently split by
- >scan line. The only way out of this situation is to reboot. The board has 1
- >meg of RAM. The system is my old Mylex 386SX-16, with 8 meg or main memory and
- >a Phoenix 386 BIOS PLUS v1.10. His old board, an ET3000, had this problem
- >before the Service Pack in VGA mode. Any ideas?
- >--
- >Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- >jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- > "I don't want to read poor Microsoft bashing. I want to read good
- >Microsoft bashing." -- Douglas A. Bell, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Me too!)
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