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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: STe troubles, video weirdness
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Date: 20 Nov 90 08:50:41 GMT
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Sorry to stir up the pot with what seems to be a now-dead subject, but I don't
recall the resolution of all the horror stories, and now have a (horrifying)
1040STe of my own to deal with. The main problem I'm having is that just
about everything that loads up gets partially written onto video memory. I get
vertical lines, I figure 16 pixels apart. I would have expected a plain-old
overwrite problem to wipe out a couple rows, starting at the top of the screen.
Instead I get 1 pixel wide vertical lines, evenly spaced out, and occasionally
the bottom of the screen gets trashed. What's going on?

The STe arrived with the STE_FIX program in the AUTO folder of its language
disk. Can't boot into medium resolution without it. Yeehah.

Along other lines... I just started using ICD's boot stuff with this new
host adapter... Apparently, whenever the driver detects a write failure, the
thing shifts the video into medium resolution. What I'm seeing is on my
multisync monitor in monochrome mode, all of a sudden there'll be a glitch and
my screen has been divided in half, vertically down the middle. Everything is
drawn in both the left and right halves of the screen. The screen borders are
resized, and look like the color rez borders, but everything stays in black and
white. The preferences menu still says high rez. This is incredibly annoying,
as well as making some stuff unreadable. (Although some of it is interesting,
really. Anyone for a 4 pixel wide font? 160 columns of text. Oooo....) It says
it's version 4.8.4, by the way.
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