mwm@raybed2.msd.ray.com (mwm) (01/08/91)
I'm having a few problems with my Gateway and I'm wondering if anyone
else out there might be experiencing them.
1) Every once and a while the WD Caviar 80 IDE Hard Drive sounds like
it's spinning down. As soon as it stops, it spins back up again.
It appears that if I'm waiting for disk data, it waits till it's
spun back up again. Maybe its the drive but I'd like to know
if anyone else has had this problem.
2) This is a problem with the 800x600 svga drivers. I've had problems
with this resolution with Windows 3.0, Vuimg (shareware gif viewer),
and Fractint (shareware fractal generator). With Windows, when the
machine is cold (i.e. hasn't been on for a while) this resolution
causes Windows to lose vertical sync until it warms up. With
the other two packages, when operating in this mode, I get diagonal
lines in the bottom portion of the screen. Any clues? I've got
the Gateway "Crystal Scan" monitor. I've had these problems with
both the ATI Wonder card with 512k and the newly supplied Diamond
SpeedStar card with 512k. Is my monitor good?
Thanks in Advance,
Mark
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<Mark Marino talks about sync problems he has with Gateway 2000> >From: mwm@raybed2.msd.ray.com . . . >when the machine is cold...causes Windows to lose vertical sync I recently bought a Gateway 2000 386/25MHz machine, and I have similar problems with Windows as you have. Rather, I have had the sync problem (I'll check tonight for the diagonal line problem with vuimg). I have found with with 800x600x16, 800x600x256,1024x768x16,1024x768x256 modes. I recently became suspicious of the monitor, when I noticed that pushing lightly on the cable connector could cause: (1) lose of all red colours; (2) lose of sync. First, I thougt it was the card, so I took the card out, and put it back making sure everything was tight. No change. So, I opened up the monitor connector. On opening, one wire immediately poped out. It was a yellow wire, but otherwise unmarked. I checked the pin assignments, and the pin missing a wire was pin 14, (surprise, surprise) the vertical sync pin. The wire connected to pin 13 (horizontal sync) also popped out while I was looking at the connector (without much force, etc. being applied). I got out the trusty soldering iron, and put things back together. This cured the sync problem, but I still have the problem that pressure on the connector will cause lose of red colours. I'm tempted to send the monitor back, but don't want to be machineless for any considerable length of time. -Afzal