baileyc@ncar.UCAR.EDU (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) (12/06/89)
I'm having some very strange problems with my video output on both my home computer system and my universities PS/2's. My home system is an XT clone (V20-10, Phoenix bios), and the PS/2's I've noticed it on are 55SX's that are networked with Novell. Both systems have monochrome video, mine with a hercules clone and Samsung flat screen and the PS/2's with some card and I think 8513 mono monitor. My problem is that starting about column 12 or so, to column 30 or so, the characters and such in that reagion (any row), jump up about 5 or 10 lines and stay there. This reeks havoc as far as command lines and such. I first noticed this in Telix, my terminal program. It has done it without fail everytime in Telix since, sometimes when not even connected. The s screen just looks garbled. It usually takes about 10 minutes for it to happen. This was on my home machine. I have also noticed it using my editor, Multi-Edit v4.00. I could just PgUp then PgDn in ME and it would be fixed, same with Q Edit, but I can't do anything about it in Telix, not even clearing the screen fixes it. I then started using ZComm instead of Telix, but it did wierd things there too, mostly just a specific graphic block character was interspersed between things and the screen was a little out of order. Later I began getting Internal stack errors and messages such as this, but I think that was due to my disk cache (which I remedied by adding stack space - I think). Anyway, I started to use the Engineering Centers' computers instead of mine. Just today my editor did the same trick, that specific section/column of the screen jumped. Until today, I thought I had a memory chip gone bad or something, but why would it do it on the PS/2's also? My only clue now is that it's some type of virus or something. But I doubt that. My command com is fine, and the floppy I'm using at the EC doens't have Command.COM on it, and I've copied my backup of Telix over mine and it still has the same problem. As for my system and the floppy, the only thing they have in common as far as files go (it's a 1.44MB 3.5") is about 10 Turbo Pascal source code files, and their respective compiled version and my editor - Multi Edit. I had been using Multi-Edit for about 3 months before this happened, so I doubt it's the problem. I have also had problems with Turbo Pascal environment on my system, but I don't use it, I just use the command line compiler, and the same goes with the engineering center. I haven't even compiled code on my system for about 2-3 weeks and I still have my problem. Any ideas???? Any programs I can use to test my system? The only think that comes to mind is a worm or logic bomb type of thing. I saw them do a "viruscan" at the engineering center about 3 or so weeks ago. Help anyone... Chris Bailey :: baileyc@tramp.Colorado.EDU One Agro Mountain Biker - Dialed in for ultra gonzo badness! "No his mind is not for rent, to any god or government" - RUSH Member of Team Buck Naked of Buckingham Palace