Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!lemsys!clemon
From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2320 problem: A GREY VERTCAL BAR
Message-ID: <5497.665168116@lemsys.UUCP>
Date: Tue Jan 29 10:55:16 1991
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
In-Reply-To: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)

In a message posted on 21 Jan 91 16:51:54 GMT,
hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood) wrote:

[Description of vertical bar appearing on screen]

SH>>  Reijo Ronkko     University of Helsinki, Dept. of General Microbiology,

SH>This sounds very strange!  The only time I have seen anything that even
SH>looked like a vertical bar was if I had klugded up a cable adaptor to
SH>hook up brand X monitor to the A2320.  The artifact that I have seen
SH>moved vertically, very slowly.  I believe this was due to reflections on
SH>the cable itself since a high-quality cable adaptor, with good grounds,
SH>did elimated this artifact.  Did you make your own cable adaptor?  Did
SH>you try, just for fun, adjusting the fine tuning control as per the
SH>manual?  If you did make your own cable adaptor, try replacing it with a
SH>high-quality store bought version.  If this does not help, then I would
SH>suggest you return it for a different one and see if you still have the
SH>problem.
SH>
SH>Regards,
SH>Scott Hood
SH>

	From the description of the problem given I would say that it's
not a hardware (ie. 2320) problem at all.  Did you (Reijo that is) run
overscan BEFORE you purchased your 2320?  Running in overscan can
sometimes break some programs you may be running.  I've been running in
overscan for two years now and I've found several program.  Dynamic Studio
is REALLY bad.  The sprites on the screen for the counters and metronomes
are all over, there are those vertical lines on the screen etc...etc... 
The key to seeing that it isn't a 2320 defect is the fact that the mouse
pointer appears OVER TOP OF the line.  Try running these same program
without overscan and try to recreate the line scenario.  Many programs
don't like it when video prefs aren't set normally.

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