At 15:40 -0500 04/24/2002, Stephen Bright wrote: >I'm one of these unfortunate souls with the Ultimate Fuzz card (2 of them). >I get the nasty video artifacts with the control panel enabled, and run it >without it at a v e r y s l o w redraw rate.
What kind of video artifacts do you get. My first Ult. Rez. put a regular pattern of red and white dots on the screen but only when the extensions were enabled. This was back when ixMicro was still around. They replaced the card and told me the old one had bad VRAM. You wouldn't think that a problem from bad VRAM would go away when the extensions aren't loaded, but apparently the thing uses the VRAM chips linearly (all of one, then all of the next, etc.) without the extensions, and interleaves them (four bits from every chip, then the next four bits from every chip, etc.) when the extensions are loaded. So a problem with VRAM is much more likely to show up with the extensions loaded. Incidentally, the VRAM appears to be the same chips as on the Power Computing VRAM modules (1 MB modules) but at $40 for a replacement, it wouldnt' really be worth th trouble to try and fix. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL SM LIST PRICES - 24x Bootable SCSI CDROM $39.99, Umax Processors $19.99 PowerSupplies from C500/C600 $49.99 J700/S900 $79.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
