Hello Alberto, On 14-Feb-00, you wrote:
AB> AB> Hello, AB> AB> I'm experiencing a very nasty freezing of my computer, connected to AB> video modes: AB> I've got an S3 Virge/DX, chipset 86C375 with 4Mb memory. I use the AB> SVGA driver. AB> No problem at all as long as I run @ 800X600 8bpp. AB> AB> But if I use 16bpp or 24bpp that should be well supported by the 4 AB> Mb memory, my system will eventually freeze at some point, on AB> opening some menu or similar operations. AB> AB> The freeze is complete. No action at all would be possible, but tu AB> push the RESET button on the cabinet. AB> AB> NOTE that exactly the SAME thing happens using Win NT, also AB> available on my computer. AB> AB> So, could it be a hardware failure? AB> Is there anything I can do to try and understand what's going on? I would suspect h/w - the fact that you get exactly the same symptoms on different OS's seems v. strong evidence, as the only thing that doesn't change when using the diifferent OS's is the h/w. Bye, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk ...or something.
