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From: blw@acsu.buffalo.edu (brian l wybaillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP!!! video problem on Tandy 1000TL
Keywords: screen saver (Explosive) messed up video
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Date: 25 Oct 90 23:58:08 GMT
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System:  Tandy 1000TL, 286 8Mhz
         color CGA
         40 Meg hard card
         640k memory

Problem:  After installing the command, Explosiv -m5 in my autoexec.bat file
everything seemed to work just fine. After an idol time of 5 minutes the
screen would display pulsating fireworks (wow). And after typing any key it
would display the origional screen. ok so far.
But just last night i decided that 5 minutes was not long enough, so i edited 
the command to read Explosive -10.  well the next time i booted up the system
the screen saver started up without a delay, and typing a key didn't seem to
help.  that is, it just kept on displaying those moronic fireworks.
	By this time i was quite upset so i tried a software interupt 
(ctrl-alt-del) but after booting the screen just flashed lots and lots of
multicolored characters.  at this time i decided to use to hardware reset
this time it booted like normal but the screen was not the same. it seems to
be in a different mode. the characters are much larger, infact the first 
5 or 6 characters in the command line are not visable due to this expansion.
also the colors are different, it will only display two shades of green and
one of purple.
	i have removed the hard card, and rebooted from a flopy, nothing has
changed.

        is there a simple explination to this, or have i severely damaged
something (ie. EEPROM)?

 	i'd greatly appreciate some feedback from anyone with this sort of 
know how.

thanks in advance.

Brian Wybaillie
University @ Buffalo