IO91472@MAINE.BITNET (10/26/90)
I think I'm up the creek. About an hour ago I used VSETUP and set up my ATI VGAWonder 512 to ega mode to run an ega program that consistanly froze my computer in vga mode. Only this time when I ran it it froze but now I could do a Ctrl-Alt-Del whereas before I had to hit reset. So, when it rebooted I go the message: The video card has been tampered, warranty void. below the video rom bios version. I had gotten this once or twice before after changing video modes and I had just changed the startup mode back to Vga Color and Multisync monitor and it had gone away. But, of course!, this time not only did the message stay when I reset the startup mode but now I can't get any SuperVga displays! Does anybody know if ATI might have built a calender inside their board or something so that if my warranty has expired today it knows it? This thing is very frustrating and I think that before long I'll end up ripping the thing out and jumping on it.