fred@pnet01.cts.com (Fred Brooks) (05/23/88)
tran@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Andy-Cuong Tran) writes: >I have a 1040ST. I notice that whenever I LOAD up a file from the internal >disk drive or from a ramdisk, diagonal standing waves would appear on my >Atari SC1224 RGB monitor for a few seconds and then disappear. Is this the >norm? Can this be fixed? I also notice that certain program causes other >interference to appear on my monitor. Whenever I use Dcformat, for example, >to format diskettes, horizontal standing waves would be visible on the screen >during the process but would disappear afterwords. Any comments on the >subject matter will be gratefully accepted. Thank you. I believe it's caused by the IPL being set to 7 for long periods of time and not being in sync with H blanking. It looks like something in the video is not being updated during this time causing the lines. This is just a guess. UUCP: {cbosgd hplabs!hp-sdd sdcsvax nosc}!crash!pnet01!fred ARPA: crash!pnet01!fred@nosc.mil INET: fred@pnet01.cts.com