Greetings:
I've just started playing around with an older system that was given
to me. :)
Is it possible to overload or burn out a video card? Why do I ask?
Have here an older ZEOS Diamond Computer with a 486 Award
modular bios wtih 1 meg of display memory, 8 megs of RAM and a
200 meg hard drive running DR.DOS 7.3 that I installed myself
because there was no previous operating system on the computer..
Attached is a non-functioning (as far as I can tell) modem and
unidentifiable type of CD ROM drive.
This system came with a Shamrock monitor (I believe it is SVGA).
Last night I played Netwars on it and set the color mode to 256
colors. The game worked just fine but after I restarted everything
that formerly was in color is now in black and white. Have looked
in the BIOS settings and all seems to be in order there (EGA/VGA
Video card) and everything is in order as it was before. Have
tweaked with the OS's color settings but it only changes
things to different shades of white, grey, and black?
To make sure it was not a monitor problem, I plugged it into my
neighbor's computer and everything comes out in color. When I
plug it back into my system, everything is in black and white.
Any suggestions?
Sorry, don't have any origional computer disks or instruction
manuals.
- Cheers! :)
Chester Paul (Cestrius)
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