Re: problems with video card after hw upgrade

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:07:57 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Q wrote:

> I just bought myself a new motherboard (Asus P5A-B), with an AMD K6-2,
> 366 MHz. I used my old video card, with an S3 Trio64 on it, and I'm
> having problems with it.
>
> When I'm using something higer then 640x480x16, I get all these vertical
> black lines on my screen.
>
> btw: I have this lines both under linux as windows.

I've seen this before. I fixed the problem by prying out a chip,
cleaning it, and popping it back into the socket.

(look at the memory chips on your video card... are they seated right?)

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