Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: VGA Wonder -- what's wrong?
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.212135.184@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group
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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 90 21:21:35 GMT
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I previously wrote:
> 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 would stretch to about 150% vertically, and
> wrap around at the top.

I've received a number of suggestions by email, but I still have the same
problem.  Let me present a few more data items:
	* Same machine with Paradise VGA+ works just fine
	* The same problem occurs on both VGA Wonder and VGA Wonder+
	* The same problem occurs using both the drivers shipped with
	  the card, and with those at cica.cica.indiana.edu.
	* Hitting Alt-Enter (to fullscreen the DOS session) usually gives
	  me a clean display until I return to the Windows screen.  Once,
	  however, Alt-Enter produced a text-mode window with the high bit
	  turned on for all displayed characters!

Any suggestions will be appreciated; please email them to me before this
card gets thrown back at the salesman.  :(

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
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