jimv@hienergy.East.Sun.COM (Jim Vienneau - Sun Microsystems) (06/11/91)
I'm running Windows 3.0 on a 386/33 and a SVGA card with Ahead bios and 512K video RAM. Everything works fine, except: When I run any DOS application in full screen mode and then return to windows, the cursor gets messed-up and screen has lots of little cursor sized black spots in it. When I say "the cursor is messed-up", I mean it looks like a cancelled stamp (Squiggly lines). It still functions, you can exit and restart windows and it's fine. Opening apps in a window works fine. I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. Any suggestions greatly appreciated! Jim Vienneau, Sun Microsystems Inc - Billerica, MA Email: jvienneau@east.sun.com Amateur Radio: WB1B Good old Ma Bell (well old anyway): (508)671-0372
jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) (06/11/91)
jimv@hienergy.East.Sun.COM (Jim Vienneau - Sun Microsystems) writes: >I'm running Windows 3.0 on a 386/33 and a SVGA card with Ahead bios and 512K >video RAM. Everything works fine, except: When I run any DOS application in >full screen mode and then return to windows, the cursor gets messed-up and >screen has lots of little cursor sized black spots in it. When I say "the >cursor is messed-up", I mean it looks like a cancelled stamp (Squiggly lines). >It still functions, you can exit and restart windows and it's fine. Opening >apps in a window works fine. I've tried everything I can think of to no avail. >Any suggestions greatly appreciated! This sounds like one of the FEE (Frequently Encountered Errors) for Windows. You've hit this FEE if your SVGA card has an autosync mode and it isn't disabled. Windows detests talking to a video card which suddenly changes modes without having been told to do so by Windows; if this happens Windows throws up and does strange things. Joe