Scott K. Hutton <shutton@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> (06/09/91)
I just finished building a 286-compatible computer and ran across an odd bug and the fix today. However, I don't know why at all the fix works. Perhaps someone out there does? What would occur was that I would receive the video BIOS notification (Pheonix VGA compatible BIOS etc.), but, after that, any text that would normally be written to the screen would not appear. The cursor *would* move, however, and I was able to do some simple things based on where I knew the cursor would be. This seemed to occur at random times. I was able to find no common denominator except for the motherboard and my multi-IO card. Swapping the video card did not help. Finally, at wits end (and jokingly) I tried turning off my printer to see if it would help; it did! Turning on the computer with the printer on caused this problem. I could turn on the printer later and would be fine. What could the printer and video output have in common? They're on different cards. _____________________________________________________________________________ Scott K. Hutton, KA9WTR Internet: SHutton@UCS.Indiana.edu UCS Support Services SHutton@Bronze.UCS.Indiana.edu Indiana University Bitnet: SHutton@IUIS, SHutton@IUBACS