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- From: tgt@neon.ecn.purdue.edu (Conan the Librarian)
- Subject: video problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.152149.28397@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Keywords: RAM check
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:21:49 GMT
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- Hello, I am posting this for a friend.
-
- He is having some problems with a 386-20 MHz system, using an older
- NEC multisync monitor and a trident graphics card. The problem:
- Whenever he powers up the system, the video is almost invariably
- scrambled. He subsequently warm reboots the system, sometimes as
- many as five times, before the video signal finally comes "clean".
- He is at the point now where he is afraid to turn the machine off
- for fear he will not be able to get any usable video the next time
- he turns it on.
-
- Can anyone shed some light on the causes of this problem? He thinks
- maybe some video RAM is bad (never had the problem with 256k, but problems
- started sometime after he added 256k extra). I thought there might
- be some software out there to test the video ram (I have seen such
- for testing main-memory) but I don't know where to get this from.
-
- Any and all help would be GREATLY appreciated.
-
- Thanks.
-
- -tom
-
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