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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Help needed for a blank screen
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.003839.6907@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Aug24.202640.20799@starbase.trincoll.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:38:39 GMT
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- Please do not crosspost within the OS/2 hierarchy -- it is extremely
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- In article <1992Aug24.202640.20799@starbase.trincoll.edu> nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
- >I've installed OS/2 on a new machine with an American Megatrends
- >bios, an STB ERGO VGA card and a Samsung Synmaster 3 monitor.
- >My trouble is that, whether I try to start a migrated application
- >such as Word Perfect or try something from the full DOS window,
- >the screen turns dark and then a pattern of horizontal lines. Nothing
- >more. Typing DIR A: turns the drive light on. Typing EXIT changes
- >the pattern but nothing intelligible.
- >Is it the card? The monitor? I've installed OS/2 on other machines
- >with no problems, but I've tried 4 or 5 times on this one (both dual
- >boot and OS/2 alone) with no success.
-
- The vsvgafx3.zoo patch, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, should fix the sync problem with this Tseng
- 4000-based card.
-
- If not, please post a follow up.
-
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