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From: press@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Barry Press)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Orchid PDPlus Video LOCKUP
Message-ID: <952@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 91 19:10:59 GMT
References: <10730009@hpspkla.spk.hp.com>
Reply-To: press@venice.sedd.trw.com (Barry Press)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <10730009@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard) writes:
>I installed the 256 color Win 3 driver for my Orchid Prodesigner Plus
>video card.  It works ok unless I move the mouse cursor to the top of the
>screen while a program is loading.  The cursor is an hourglass at this
>point, and locks up my whold system every time.

I have the same card, and am running in 1024x768x256 with no problems.  The 
board has 1Meg (of course); I'm running interlaced to a NEC 3D.  Windows 
drivers are version 3.2 (older ones are on the BBS too, be careful).  My
video BIOS chips are version 3.3.

I have noticed that, with an IBM mono card installed, the board won't come up
in 16-bit mode, but only 8-bit, which slows the screen updates in Windows
by a factor of nearly 2 (measured, not estimated).  I'd sure love to know
how to fix that ...


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