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From: apollo@raven.bu.edu (Doug Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Ahead VGA problem
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Date: 17 Feb 91 08:50:17 GMT
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I've got a VGA board which has a problem displaying 1024x768 256 colors.
When it is running in that mode, the picture has lines of randomly blinking
pixels (sort of looks like a TV with a bad reception).

-The board works fine all the way up to 1024x768, 16colors.
-The severity of the problem varies w/temperature of the RAM.
-The board uses the Ahead V5000 chipset.
- 256Kx4 80ns memory chips

What could be the problem?
Video RAM not fast enough? (I ruled out a flaky RAM since this is the 
 second board sent to me with the same problem)

-Doug
apollo@raven.bu.edu