Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!dorm.rutgers.edu!medici From: medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: VGA Wonder -- what's wrong? Message-ID: Date: 31 Dec 90 09:00:15 GMT References: <1990Dec29.021634.3433@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1990Dec30.212135.184@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes: |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. :( What monitor are you using? Perhaps it can't sync on the ATI's horizontal frequency, but has no problem catching the Paradise's frequency. I've had similar problems with my NEC MultiSync II on a Video-7 VEGA VGA.