[pchelpers] Re: Corrupt Video In DOS Mode
- From: "Robert McLellan" <bobmclellan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:25:14 -0600
G.
When you reboot or go into the bios (setup) can you read anything
before you go into Windows? I have seen what you are talking about when you
go into window and set the refresh rate way to high. How old is your
Monitor and what refresh rate do you have set?
Bob McLellan
----- Original Message -----
From: "G.Cox" <georgetcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi People,
> I have a problem with the display in DOS mode on my computer. The video is
> obviously corrupt. Most of the time I can't make out anything- there are
> just snowy bands of color or white, and sometimes there is text that is
> repeated and overlapped so as to make reading what is typed on the screen
> next to impossible. I can't fix it by re-installing my video drivers. When
> the boot process gets to windows everything displays properly. If I can't
> fix this anything that would require me to be able to read a DOS screen
> would be impossible, including re-installing my Windows 98SE or flashing
the
> bios. I need your advice, please.
>
> G. Cox
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