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Thread ID: 54555	2005-02-15 17:46:00	Display problem on 98se rebuild	jvnn (7330)	Press F1

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325333	2005-02-15 17:46:00	I've got a p3 733 on an asus cuv4x with a rage 128-16mb video card. I'm not a gamer, the problems are with 2-d stuff like word, publisher, firefox, free solitaire, etc. The problems can be seen at photos.yahoo.com/jvnn in the video problems folder. Here's an attempt at a verbal description; 1) when scrolling, there will sometimes be a place where line or parts of lines are duplicated on the display. 2) when looking at images they can have horizontal lines breaking up the image. 3) when playing solitaire, the display can get portions of card images stuck at various place on the display. One thing common to these problems is that if I minimize and restore the application the problem generally clears up or at least changes - if I scroll around a bit it comes back. The rebuild consisted of fdisk, format, boot to floppy, copy cabs, install 98se, install motherboard drivers (tried v420,v437,v443), install directx (tried 8.1 and 9), install video drivers (tried 2 revs), install ethernet card, update windows (but not ie), fiddle with bios settings, try default bios settings, try bios rev 1009. I've also tried swapping memory around I've got a 512 and a 128 stick. Obviously I haven't tried every possible combination of these things, but none of the changes I've made solved the problem. I'm thinking it's a configuration or driver issue, but I'm stumped. I found one thing that did make the problem go away - linux. The display seems rock solid under mandrake 9.2. Help! Thanks - Joel	jvnn (7330)
325334	2005-02-15 22:09:00	Just boot / install 98se from CD. That should be bootable Sounds like the monitor or videocard maybe ready to die. Or try changing the refresh rate / resolution.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
325335	2005-02-15 23:38:00	Just boot / install 98se from CD. That should be bootable Sounds like the monitor or videocard maybe ready to die. Or try changing the refresh rate / resolution. I dialed down the refresh and still have the problem. I don't believe it's the monitor or videocard because a) it worked fine before this rebuild and b) it works fine under linux. Also, there was no problem with the install I've done it twice just to see if that was it and it went just fine. P.S. for those who tried to check the images of my problem, I just realized I had not opened the photos.yahoo folder for public view, that's fixed now. Thanks - Joel	jvnn (7330)
325336	2005-02-15 23:59:00	I would try removing one of the ram simms and either put the 512 in by itself or the 128 (or the 512 first, then the 128 after). See if u have the same prob. It might be a memory/ram problem, why your pics are breaking up. Even tho u say it works fine in Linux.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
325337	2005-02-16 02:05:00	Or you could try an OS upgrade, 98se is well old.....	SolMiester (139)
325338	2005-02-16 03:32:00	- Speedy Yeah, I tried the differnt combos of memory, no help there, I ran memtest-86 (some bootable cd a linux friend gave me) and it says no errors. -meister A friend offered me win2000. Is that likely to be much of an improvement? I don't really want to go to xp. Thanks u 2 for helpin me think about this - J	jvnn (7330)
325339	2005-02-16 03:56:00	Certainly, Win2k will be a better OS than 98se. Your CPU is fast enough and you have plenty of RAM. The new OS should better recognise & control the driver, however I couldnt promise a fix. You seem to have done everything esle. 16mb is not a very powerful card to be viewing pictures. What is the screen resolution you are using and colour depth 16, 24 or 32 bit. You will find however that Window 2000 with Service Pack 4 to be a must stabler OS.	SolMiester (139)
325340	2005-03-24 07:30:00	Got win 2000 in and nary a problem. I guess I never will know what it was. Thanks everyone for the suggestions Joel	jvnn (7330)
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