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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Debugging - Mono shoots blanks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.062431.10512@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 06:24:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Dec16.062431.10512
- References: <xMX6s*Vc2@dodd.UUCP>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- dodd@dodd.UUCP (Mike Dodd) writes:
-
- >My setup is a Gateway2000 386/33C, Diamond Speedstar, CrystalScan.
- >I have a generic 8bit Monochrome card installed, a SAMSUNG Monochrome
- >monitor hooked up.
-
- >On MODE MONO I get over to the monochrome screen but every letter or
- >character is blank. The cursor moves but no letters. TD -do test shows
- >nothing on the mono screen, I can work blind - ALT-F, Q to quit, etc, but
- >I see nothing on the screen.
-
- >Any ideas, suggestions.
- > -Mike
-
- >PS: I tried eliminating VMODE from autoexec, changing slots, eliminating
- >sound card (:-))
-
- >I am running 386MAX - could the install program have detected a nitch it
- >could fill and just used it for something else?
-
- Well, that *does* sound like the most likely possibility. Try booting off
- a clean floppy. Format A: /S and then boot off the disk. If it works then
- you've got a software problem.
-
- If it doesn't work, try pulling the other video card, and changing your
- config to mono. If it *still* doesn't work, you've got a hardware problem.
-
- BTW, if it *is* 386MAX, you had a crash waiting to happen. Because your
- VGA card can use the same address space that the mono card does.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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