[iyonix-support] Re: Pyjama effect

In message <451D8212.6070307@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Andrew Hodgkinson <ahodgkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dave Higton wrote:
> 
>> You should be able to buy a new video card and a download of RISC OS
>> 5.12 any day now (maybe already, I'm not sure).
> 
> Hmmm. Much as I admire further developments in the OS to support better
> graphics hardware and can understand their price tag, I can't quite get
> my head around seeing someone being potentially charged cash to fix a
> fundamental problem in something that has a high three to low four figure
> price tag in the first place.
> 
> It might be a particularly irritating nVidia card revision at fault here.
> In such a case, swapping out the card might be a cost-effective solution,
> if Castle were up for it. Then they'd have the problematic card back at
> base to continue analysing the problem and hopefully come up with a
> software fix for those that still see graphics issues at startup, albeit
> less often.
> 

My concern is that I don't want a graphics card upgrade if it doesn't 
fix the graphics card problems I have at the moment (I have to reset 
virtually every time I switch on - effectively doubling my boot time). 
What reason is there to suppose that the upgrade will fix things has 
anyone said that it will?.

I assume the problem with the current card is not with software as 
various rom upgrades have made no difference. So is it the graphics 
card that is faulty or is it the motherboard?

Do Castle know for certain what the problem is?

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Colin
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