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From: MUHRTH@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: ATI Wonder (yes I do.....) plus
Message-ID: <91104.084938MUHRTH@DB0TUI11.BITNET>
Date: 14 Apr 91 06:49:38 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin
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Dear netlanders,
we have the following problems in connection with video boards,
monitors and Windows 3.0:

Prolog:
  We had to exchange the video boards (noname with 1 Meg RAM) of
  5 newly purchased PCs which worked perfectly with Windows,
  because the Tseng Lab 4000 chip set does not work properly
  with DigiTalk's Smalltalk/V 286, which is our basic
  development tool (we will port our application to Smalltalk/V
  Windows in the medium range). This incompatibility (scrambled
  fonts, menu items disappearing) is a known problem (for
  users!); any responsible is rejected by either of the
  companies. So we decided to get boards three times the price
  of the Tseng based card: ATI VGA Wonder plus/512K.

Problem 1:
  When using any of the advanced video modes supported by the
  Window-drivers which came with the new boards it is not
  possible to switch back from a DOS application running in DOS-
  mode to Windows: The screen in the upper third is scrambled.
  Windows still reacts to keyboard events like it should. This
  problem only appears with the new monitors we bought: TAXAN
  795 with 1024x768 resolution non-interlaced. Everything is ok
  with our old monitors, EIZO 9070S. This problem does not occur
  with the Optima card and the TAXAN monitor.
  The ATI-drivers are dated November 1990.

Problem 2:
  All 256 colour modes of the ATI Wonder + do not work properly
  with either monitor: all portions of the screen touched by the
  moving cursor, especially window borders and text get
  scrambled (but not unreadable).

System-Info:
  We use 386SX boards with 4MB RAM, have Windows installed on a
  Novell server, use ethernet cards, NetWare SFT 2.15.

Please respond by e-mail because we have a very fast garbage
collector for netnews.... 
Thank you very much -
Thomas
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Thomas Muhr, Technical University of Berlin, BITNET: muhrth@db0tui11
   Project ATLAS - Computer Based Tools for Qualitative Research
         "Computers, like every technology, are a vehicle
      for the transformation of tradition." (WINOGRAD/FLORES)