Re: Freeze due to video card?
Hello Alberto,
On 14-Feb-00, you wrote:
AB>
AB> Hello,
AB>
AB> I'm experiencing a very nasty freezing of my computer, connected to
AB> video modes:
AB> I've got an S3 Virge/DX, chipset 86C375 with 4Mb memory. I use the
AB> SVGA driver.
AB> No problem at all as long as I run @ 800X600 8bpp.
AB>
AB> But if I use 16bpp or 24bpp that should be well supported by the 4
AB> Mb memory, my system will eventually freeze at some point, on
AB> opening some menu or similar operations.
AB>
AB> The freeze is complete. No action at all would be possible, but tu
AB> push the RESET button on the cabinet.
AB>
AB> NOTE that exactly the SAME thing happens using Win NT, also
AB> available on my computer.
AB>
AB> So, could it be a hardware failure?
AB> Is there anything I can do to try and understand what's going on?
I would suspect h/w - the fact that you get exactly the same
symptoms on different OS's seems v. strong evidence, as the only thing
that doesn't change when using the diifferent OS's is the h/w.
Bye,
LeeE
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