Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!santra!santra.hut.fi!t36273c From: t36273c@saha.hut.fi (Ari Huttunen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Orchid ProDesigner VGA+ (Problems.. & vugif 1.00) Keywords: VGA problems & vugif 1.00 problem Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 89 23:23:46 GMT Sender: news@santra.UUCP Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 41 Hey! I've been an (un)happy owner of the Orchid ProDesigner VGA+ for some time and I'd like to know if any of you have had similar experiences.. I bought this card a couple of weeks ago and found it wasn't working. So did the salesman at the computer store. So the card was sent for repair. It came back today... But was still not working properly.. (They replaced it, I don't know what they did to the original.) The main problem is that the VGA-card can't seem to handle 10MHz bus speed.. (I have a Mitac MPC 2000s motherboard) Instead I have to lower the speed to 6MHz to get the card working. This seems a little rough. Surely a new VGA card should be able to handle 10MHz!? If I use 10MHz speed, in a graphics program a part (10%) of the pixels go anywhere in the screen. This happens also if the program writes through the BIOS.. If I put the card in an 8-bit slot, it doesn't have this problem. (even in 10MHz speed..) Using the jumper to set 8-bit operation doesn't have the same effect. Problem 2: in 800x600x16 and 800x600x256 graphics modes there is a plainly visible dark vertical line at the right side of the picture. About .5 cm from the side. (2.5 cm = 1 inch, if you didn't know ;) I can't get it to dissapper. And I'm quite certain it DOESN'T come from the monitor! (Which is, by the way, TVM MD-11A) Problem 3: The windows driver (Windows 2.x , 800x600x16) doesn't work properly. The background is (by default) green and when I move a window around, it leaves dark horizontal lines on green at the background. Also, if I minimize (for example) the MSDOS-executive and move it around, I still can read 'msdos executive' on the place the icon was previously!! You can reply to the net or if you like, directly my e-mail addres below. The last problem conserns vugif 1.00 . If a GIF has background other than black, and vugif tries to change the border color in 800x600 modes, the colors go 'dark'.. This means most GIFs become almost black but some only a little dark.. (I haven't registered yet, so vugif uses BIOS calls..) -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ari Huttunen = In the beginning the Uni(x)verse was created. ahuttune@hupu.hut.fi = This has made a lot of people very angry and been = widely considered as a bad move. _______________________________________________________________________________