We just ran into a ghosting problem last week on a XP machine. It was with everything though.. mostly menus and task bar and such. What was wierd is that we first thought video card. We first pulled the AGP video card out and reseated it.. no effect. We replaced it with a new duplicate card and then the machine wouldn't boot up... OH yes, we were thinking "having fun" at this point. So we took out the AGP video card and put in a PCI video card. The machine booted up.. hmmm.. we thought.. We also checked the BIOS because some have a setting to look for a AGP card first.. Well, we got curious and put the AGP card back in and it booted fine and the ghosting effect went away.. you go figure out why Windows corrected after all this.
Jim Limburg
David M. Blocker wrote:
Hi Folks
A client of mine is upgrading their machines from Windows 98 to WIndows XP. In one case, they brought in a NEW machine with XP, installed R:Base 6.5++ DOS again, and it runs our application just fine.
On the second, they took the SAME machine and changed it from 98 to XP. In the process, they uninstalled 6.5++ and then installed it again.
On this machine, at first they weren't getting a full screen. I helped them with that by setting up a new icon that runs a batch file that in turn runs RBase (paths are OK), and setting the properties on the Options Tab to "full screen".
However, they are now getting a very strange "ghosting" effect, as they describe it to me. First the commands in the batch show on the screen even when in R:Base. Second, when they select an item in the menu which brings up an editing screen, and then leave that screen to return to the menu (created with a CHOOSE command from a PULLDOWN block in an APX file), the record just edited remains on screen in the background even though the form has been closed. It isn't the form - it runs fine on the other machine.
We checked the system variables - TEMP, TMP, FILES, BUFFERS - the latter two were missing but we added them in. No effect..
Anyone seen anything like this before? Have any ideas what to do? They have more PC's to upgrade but they're on hold until we figure this on out!
David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261
