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Beta6.0, G400, Win98 & Artifacts?
This problem (I *thought*) had gone away on my system following the 'uninstall'
of the wrong drivers and an install of the latest BIOS and Beta 6.0 drivers...
But it comes back from time to time...
******Was a driver problem, wrong driver.
Installed new Bios, new drivers (BETA 6) and all is fine... NOT!
>
> Have an OEM G400, 32 MB on a Cel566 @850 >(100/33 bus, no O/C of video card) on a BX >Master BX chipset MOBO. Plenty of cooling,
> chipset on Matrox card is cool to touch.
>
> My problem is that the 'mouse pointer' has >a small, trailing " - " just below it by about 2/3 inch and slight to the right
> as you look at it (if you drop a straight >line down from the pointer, it is just to >the right of that straight line, 2/3 inch
> down from mouse pointer.) This occurs EVEN >if the mouse pointer goes away and there is, >instead, a 'cursor' (like in writing this
> email, the mouse is a flat cursor, the >'artifact' remains and is in the same >position.)
>
> What would/could cause this in the video >setup (running at 75Mhz refresh on Diamond >Plus 200 w/1280-1024 and 16M colors)
>
> GREATLY appreciate any help. Thanks.*************
The "atifacts" are a simple - that follows the mouse beneath it and
slightly to the right of 'directly' beneath it. IT ONLY occurs AFTER a
'drag and drop' in an app (not a desktop icon, for instance, but say a file
in 'windows explorer' or even a toolbar icon being dragged in 'edit' to a
different location on that apps toolbar, did it in Lotus WordPro Millenium
9.1 and did it in Corel's WordPerfect 2000) - EACH time you do the
drag and drop, another - appears beneath the first one, and so on until
there is about 4 or 5 of the negative - signs beneath and following
the mouse pointer.
This problem is temporarily fixed by changing refresh rates from, say, 75 to
85 (and then if it does it again, back to 75... gets boring...) OR doing a
REBOOT (I thought a 'device manager' refresh would help, did not... have
to do a warm reboot and they go away.)
The problem is not resolved by turning 'bitmap caching' off (it is off)...
Polygon is on...
The SYSTEM description remains as above... basically running the BUS at
100/33 so the Matrox is NOT overclocked. It runs very well, the system
remains very cool and there is no great heat. No, never, lockups or hangs...
the system will run with the negative - signs for days... doesn't
effect performance. Tried earlier drivers, same results. Thanks for any ideas
or experience with solving this.
of the wrong drivers and an install of the latest BIOS and Beta 6.0 drivers...
But it comes back from time to time...
******Was a driver problem, wrong driver.
Installed new Bios, new drivers (BETA 6) and all is fine... NOT!
>
> Have an OEM G400, 32 MB on a Cel566 @850 >(100/33 bus, no O/C of video card) on a BX >Master BX chipset MOBO. Plenty of cooling,
> chipset on Matrox card is cool to touch.
>
> My problem is that the 'mouse pointer' has >a small, trailing " - " just below it by about 2/3 inch and slight to the right
> as you look at it (if you drop a straight >line down from the pointer, it is just to >the right of that straight line, 2/3 inch
> down from mouse pointer.) This occurs EVEN >if the mouse pointer goes away and there is, >instead, a 'cursor' (like in writing this
> email, the mouse is a flat cursor, the >'artifact' remains and is in the same >position.)
>
> What would/could cause this in the video >setup (running at 75Mhz refresh on Diamond >Plus 200 w/1280-1024 and 16M colors)
>
> GREATLY appreciate any help. Thanks.*************
The "atifacts" are a simple - that follows the mouse beneath it and
slightly to the right of 'directly' beneath it. IT ONLY occurs AFTER a
'drag and drop' in an app (not a desktop icon, for instance, but say a file
in 'windows explorer' or even a toolbar icon being dragged in 'edit' to a
different location on that apps toolbar, did it in Lotus WordPro Millenium
9.1 and did it in Corel's WordPerfect 2000) - EACH time you do the
drag and drop, another - appears beneath the first one, and so on until
there is about 4 or 5 of the negative - signs beneath and following
the mouse pointer.
This problem is temporarily fixed by changing refresh rates from, say, 75 to
85 (and then if it does it again, back to 75... gets boring...) OR doing a
REBOOT (I thought a 'device manager' refresh would help, did not... have
to do a warm reboot and they go away.)
The problem is not resolved by turning 'bitmap caching' off (it is off)...
Polygon is on...
The SYSTEM description remains as above... basically running the BUS at
100/33 so the Matrox is NOT overclocked. It runs very well, the system
remains very cool and there is no great heat. No, never, lockups or hangs...
the system will run with the negative - signs for days... doesn't
effect performance. Tried earlier drivers, same results. Thanks for any ideas
or experience with solving this.
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