On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:36:02AM -0700, Cestrius (Chester Paul) wrote:
> 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?
I remember my friend had the same problem. It was solved by
using a Trident's program (tcolor.exe (?)). It worked very
fine on his Cirrus Logic. I had lost it on my crashed HD, but
I can ask him if you need this program.
This is not a hardware problem (at least nothing wrong with
monitor). Your video card sometimes isn't recognizing this
monitor as color one. I don't know why this happens, but newer
video cards and monitors don't have this problem.
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