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Conference noted::windows95

Title:Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:EEMELI::BACKSTROM
Created:Mon Nov 14 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2958
Total number of notes:19968

2932.0. "Garbled Display Text on HiNote w/Chips Adapter" by PKGSRV::SCHEINOHA () Wed May 21 1997 14:57

    Please provide a pointer, if one exists.
    
    I recently installed Microsoft Exchange client on my HiNote CT475
    laptop.  The laptop is running Windows 95.
    
    Since the install, my display is garbling text in KEAterm and most
    other Win95 display boxes and buttons.  Sometimes, it comes and goes,
    but most of the time the garbled characters are there.
    
    This laptop contains the "Chips & Technologies" Display Adapter.
    
    I checked the driver files used by this adapter, but can't see that the
    MS-EXCHANGE software install replaced a driver.
    
    Are the Display Driver Files the source of my problem ?
    
    Or is it something else ?
    
    Again, if this is a known problem with the MS-EXCHANGE installation,
    please provide a pointer.
    
    Thanks.
    Mike Scheinoha
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    
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2932.1PCBUOA::KRATZWed May 21 1997 15:326
    *usually* that's not a good sign... the video controller or
    video memory is likely going out to lunch.  May or may not be
    heat related.  If you can boot a DOS floppy and still see
    garbled funniness in apps/utilities there, that would tend to
    prove it.
    .02 K 
2932.2could we have more detail on `garble'?FIEVEL::FILGATEBruce Filgate SHR3-2/W4 237-6452Thu May 22 1997 12:0413
 I'm chasing/isolating a video garble problem, and Exchange figures
 prominently in the changes before/after problem.

 My garble leaves the characters cells the correct size, but the 
 pixels in the character are not the correct color nor in the correct
 position.  Once the problem comes up, any character anywhere on
 the display that is correct, will be garbled if replaced/refreshed
 [If a screen is dragged over a windows to cover it, then removed so that
 Windows refreshes the previously hidden window, the refreshed screen
 is now also garbled.]

 Bruce