Subject: Re: Faulty PMAGD-A
To: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fs.tum.de>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/07/2000 22:47:52
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Chris Tribo wrote:

[Red screen test failure]

> 	Did this error start when you switched to using a monochrome
> monitor or did it just spontaneously happen?

It happened first when I switched the machine on after I got it from the
university, which was also the first time I used it on a monochrome
monitor, so I can't really tell.

> You may however be able to trick the card into thinking that the red
> signal is attached by terminating it, but I don't know the innards of
> the Bt RAMDACS or if that is even the real problem.

Shouldn't it be reporting "Blue screen test failed" also?

   Simon

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