I am currently using a Savage4 display adapter, the name of the main chipset
is 86C385/396/397. If only I select graphics mode, any resolution, any color
number, any refresh rate, thedisplay is always improper, vertical strips!
I have tried once to use another monitor, the problem is the same.
How can I solve it? thanks a lot.
yours sincerely
Christopher
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I am currently using a Savage4 display adapter, the name of the
main chipset
is 86C385/396/397. If only I select graphics mode, any resolution,
any color
number, any refresh rate, thedisplay is always improper, vertical
strips!
I have tried once to use another monitor, the problem is the same.
How can I solve it? thanks a lot.
yours sincerely
ChristopherI had problems with a Stealth III S540 PCI graphics card until I
flashed it with the latest bios:
Version 2.25E - 4207 (Be SURE to use the right one for YOUR Gfx
card!!!)
Turn off caching and shadowing of the video bios prior to
programming the card.
On this motherboard: BeOS & Linux & QNX_RTP worked fine with 128MB
(in fact: better!)
The card (esp w/ Linux Mandrake) had all sorts of video errors and
blitter-works.
By upgrading the Stealth III to the latest BIOS it fixed all the
problems, for all 3 OS’s.
However: WinX still crashed (“frozen solid”) in under 1 minute.
Recquired hard reset/pwr cycle.
It repaired & booted ok, but within 3-4 mouse clicks it would freeze
the display/KB.
(Even with 640x480, zero HW accel, and everything imagineable
switched off/low)
I pulled 64MB RAM to test another MB, and suddenly WinX did’nt
crash, So I set everything back to fast/full speed, and it now runs
“normaly”.
Tried a different 128MB, and still Instant WinX freeze.
I’ve been told WinX loads “top-down”: filling the (cacheless) upper
part of RAM first.
An Operating System loads from the “bottom-up”, and all 3 worked
fine with 128MB.
Seems that Intel 82437VX equiped MBs really showcase WinX’s memory
scheme together.
Does your motherboard use the Intel 82437VX ? Have more than >64MB?
Have less than 1M-512K cache?
(I guess if I could consume 64MB before Windows froze, it might
not crash as instantly.:-/)
I prefer 2 systems with 64 MB over 1 broken system with 128MB.
Double the cracked blocks of RC5 for team Amiga!