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From: gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Noise on Window screens (Maybe ATI?)
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Date: 28 Feb 91 07:00:09 GMT
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In article <6308@rex.cs.tulane.edu> keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating) writes:
>> Has anyone ever experienced some noise on the Windows screens?  By noise, I
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>I have the same problem.  My bet would be that it is the ATI Driver. From your
>other message, it seems we both have ATI VGAWonder's with 512K.  I'm operating
>mine at 16 color 800x600 mode.  My background is a dark blue, and little red
>garbage pixels appear.  Usually on the bottom third of the screen.  And usually
>after dragging something around over the affected areas.

Sorry Guys but I've been using my ATI VGAwonder 512k in 800x600x16 color
mode for as long as the driver has been out and I have no problems what 
so ever. I just recently changed the bios on the video card but even with 
the original one, I had no problems! Maybe conflicting with the rest
of your configuration! Originally Windows itself seemed to have a conflict
with my IDE drive and ATI VGAWONDER (that was the reason for the bios
upgrade- it was alot cheaper than changing a 125MB hard drive!).

Try to get a hold of the most recent bios used on these cards, It might 
solve your problem (it shouldn't be to expensive)!