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From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Screen Blank Utility
Keywords: screen blank utility burnout burndev
Message-ID: <1340@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 89 21:49:27 GMT
References: <6686@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <1338@mitisft.Convergent.COM> <326@usna.MIL>
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In article <326@usna.MIL> baldwin@cad.usna.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
>In article <1338@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, Philip Burton writes:
>>I just tried to use Burndev v.31, but found it works ONLY with text-mode
>>applications.  With my Multi-sync (still connected to my EGA until I get a
>>VGA card) the screen turns to multi-colored garbage with Ventura Publisher.  
>
>I assume you mean version 2.31.

Yes, I did mean v 2.31.  I just can't type too well.

>
>Try installing BURNDEV.SYS in your config.sys file with the option H+ (hard-
>ware mode on). 

Yup.  Already did.

> Maybe your system is just weird, but no one in this depart-

I doubt it.  I have a gen-u-wine IBM PC AT 6 MHz (ripe for an upgrade),
and a gen-u-wine IBM EGA card with 256 KB RAM.  My new monitor is a NEC 3D.


>ment has ever had such a problem.  Though I don't use Ventura, I do use 
>TP, Quattro, PaintShow, AutoCad, WordPerfect, Cyrus, NCSA Telnet (in TEK4014
>mode) and a wide variety of other text- and graphics-based applications.  I 
>have never had the problem you describe, or indeed any problem with getting
>the screen to blank in hardware mode--though I've had a few weird results
>
>>Also, burndev doesn't respond to mouse actions.
>
>Nothing to be done about that.  I find that I can live with hitting the 
>"Alt" key once in a while to reset the burnout timer.  In Quattro, I
>   _, J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept  |+| say, I am quite prepared not only to


Unfortunately, the ALT key solution doesn't work at all for Excel (Windows),
and with Ventura, it causes the multi-colored garbage to re-appear on the screen.
The only soluion is a reboot.