[iyonix-support] Re: Coloured snow
- From: Harriet Bazley <iyonix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:08:26 +0100
On 31 May 2007 as I do recall,
John wrote:
> On 29 May, Harriet Bazley <iyonix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 18 Apr 2007 as I do recall,
> > Harriet Bazley wrote:
>
> > > My Iyonix Aria keeps starting up locked with a screen full of coloured
> > > 'snow' (similar to the effect produced by poking screen memory with
> > > random data on the BBC B). When it does this, no amount of pushing of
> > > the reset button will produce a working desktop, although sometimes it
> > > produces black-and-white stripes instead after the reset - the only way
> > > to get the machine to work is to switch it off at the plug.
> > >
> > Anyone else seeing this? I assume it's the 5.13 equivalent of the old
> > 'graphics card detection' problems....
>
> It couldn't be the graphics card failing, I suppose? This sounds a bit like
> the first symptoms on mine when the fan stopped running and the card
> overheated, knocking out part of the memory on the card.
>
I wouldn't have thought so, as it was new at the end of December 2006,
and so far as I remember the symptoms started almost immediately....
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H. Bazley
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