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From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: VGA Wonder -- what's wrong?
Message-ID: <1057@rna.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 90 20:33:06 GMT
References: <1990Dec29.021634.3433@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: dan@rna.UUCP (Root Beer)
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In article <1990Dec29.021634.3433@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>Several of our older 386s have ATI VGA Wonder cards in them.  They were
>causing serious problems when I'd try to display a DOS window on the screen in
>800x600/16 mode: the screen woul stretch to about 150% vertically, and wrap
>around at the top.

	It must be something else other than the ATI card since I've used
the VGA Wonder with Windows 2.11 (386) and 3.0 on several different 386
machines, opening DOS windows in 800x600 and 1024x768 modes and everything
is fine. Old Windows drivers from ATI used to have a few problems but newer
versions (last 1.5 years) have worked well. Perhaps you need a new driver,
or maybe its your BIOS (AMI and Phoenix work well, I've heard of problems with
the AWARD BIOS).


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