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PLEASE HELP!! - Display oddities with G400!
My problem may not be as serious as some poor sods are getting around
here...but it is beginning to get on my nerves, so any help would be
MOST appreciated!
Basically the problem appears in a couple of different situations...first of all whilst using Photoshop 5.5, I occasionally
get a single multi-coloured vertical line (1 pixel wide approx)appearing on the screen whilst editing a picture. It appears in
different places on screen, during different editing operations.....sometimes soon after starting the session, and other times not for a while!
If I minimize the window, then restore it again...the line disappears!
Another area where wierd things are happening, is the start menu....sometimes the black on grey background text appears with certain pixels multi-coloured...(the pixlels appear to move slightly too) thus making the text VERY hard to read! This also shows itself in drop down menu's in IE5 for example.
I have to restart to clear things up this time.
I'm not sure how much info you folks need to help with this...but I don't want to bore you with TOO much bloody useless stuff......so if you need more than the following please do ask!
My system is:
Abit BE6 II M/B (NY Bios)
PIII 450 CPU
128 Mb SDRAM
Matrox G400 32 Mb DH (5.30 drivers & latest 1.5-22 bios...not sure
'bout using latest drivers yet!)
SB Live 1024 sound card
Yamaha CD writer
Pioneer 103 DVD
IBM 22XP 18.2 Gb ATA 66 HD
Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard (USB)
Logitech Marble F/X trackball
CTX 710T 17" Monitor (using CTX .inf file)
There are no conflicts, and the G400 is only sharing with IRQ for PCI steering on IRQ 5...which is O.K. I understand?)
The display is set to 1024 X 768 at 32 bit colour. (STILL happens in 24 bit colour by the way)
Oh yeah, On boot up , I get a couple of "Bad command" lines appearing (From the AutoExec.bat file it appears).....on the following lines:
mode con codepage prepare=((850)C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
keyb uk,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
However after a short delay, the message " Vbtext is running" comes up
(a Matrox utility I understand to load Monitor Parameters?)....and
everything else starts up O.K.
Not sure this is connected...but I thought I should mention it!
I REALLY would appreciate any help you folks can offer....I don't want to dabble too much before getting some advice from you kind
sorts!
Cheers,
Andy B, Bolton, U.K.
here...but it is beginning to get on my nerves, so any help would be
MOST appreciated!
Basically the problem appears in a couple of different situations...first of all whilst using Photoshop 5.5, I occasionally
get a single multi-coloured vertical line (1 pixel wide approx)appearing on the screen whilst editing a picture. It appears in
different places on screen, during different editing operations.....sometimes soon after starting the session, and other times not for a while!
If I minimize the window, then restore it again...the line disappears!
Another area where wierd things are happening, is the start menu....sometimes the black on grey background text appears with certain pixels multi-coloured...(the pixlels appear to move slightly too) thus making the text VERY hard to read! This also shows itself in drop down menu's in IE5 for example.
I have to restart to clear things up this time.
I'm not sure how much info you folks need to help with this...but I don't want to bore you with TOO much bloody useless stuff......so if you need more than the following please do ask!
My system is:
Abit BE6 II M/B (NY Bios)
PIII 450 CPU
128 Mb SDRAM
Matrox G400 32 Mb DH (5.30 drivers & latest 1.5-22 bios...not sure
'bout using latest drivers yet!)
SB Live 1024 sound card
Yamaha CD writer
Pioneer 103 DVD
IBM 22XP 18.2 Gb ATA 66 HD
Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard (USB)
Logitech Marble F/X trackball
CTX 710T 17" Monitor (using CTX .inf file)
There are no conflicts, and the G400 is only sharing with IRQ for PCI steering on IRQ 5...which is O.K. I understand?)
The display is set to 1024 X 768 at 32 bit colour. (STILL happens in 24 bit colour by the way)
Oh yeah, On boot up , I get a couple of "Bad command" lines appearing (From the AutoExec.bat file it appears).....on the following lines:
mode con codepage prepare=((850)C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
keyb uk,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys
However after a short delay, the message " Vbtext is running" comes up
(a Matrox utility I understand to load Monitor Parameters?)....and
everything else starts up O.K.
Not sure this is connected...but I thought I should mention it!
I REALLY would appreciate any help you folks can offer....I don't want to dabble too much before getting some advice from you kind
sorts!
Cheers,
Andy B, Bolton, U.K.
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