> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:36:58 +0100 > From: lovek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [PCI] 8600 video problem > >>>> >>> the 8600 has 8 slots for RAM and 4 slots for VRAM; you should have either 2 >>> or 4 of the VRAM slots full. You'll see what I mean. >>> >> >>> >>> >> Well thanks to everyone for the help, but no dice. Pressing >> the cuda, zapping PRAM, re-seating the vram chips did nothing.. >> Still looks like I'm look at the monitor through a screen door.. But >> thanks for the help.. I believe it is time to acquire a 9600 mobo >> for this case.. So another question, would the 300mhz processor card >> in this 8600 work on a 9600 mobo? >> >> -tia >> -nathan > > on my 7300 I had a bad vrambank. > the screendoor would only show at 256 colours, > I experimented with shuffling the vram dimms and ended up with just > using 3 out of for banks and leaving one of them empty, > and it worked, a little circuit was blackened, > so I did not use the bank next to that one - and it worked, of course > at a lesser amount of wram - but it worked. nothing wrong with the > vram dimm but the bank was bad. > L
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