Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-> This monitor started acting a bit weird on my a while back,  it was
-> starting to intermittently lose the blue,  giving all of my text a 
-> rather odd tint...
-> We were away for a couple of days,  and last night when I came back 
-> it was even stranger.  Something prompted me to wiggle the video 
-> cable at the back of the computer,  and now all I have are gray and 
-> white.  No color at all. I'm also looking at some very odd effects 
-> when things are supposed to be highlighted,  etc. Anybody run into 
-> this one before?  I suppose the next step is to see if the problem 
-> resides in the monitor or the video card.  The card is that same  
-> Compaq that's given me grief in other applications,  sold to me as a 
-> 2M card but I never could get any system to see more than 1M on it.

 TW>  Since moving the Computer end caused a change I would try cleaning
 TW> the Plug and socket on the cable and video card. 

I did get around to trying a different monitor on this setup,  the one next
to this one that runs nice color with linux,  and it did the same thing, 
pure mono,  so it's not the plug.  Not sure what I've got that'll do
anything with the teeny little holes in the socket.  Maybe I'll pull the
card out and see if there's possibly a busted solder joint or something.

 TW> And also cleaning the Video card edge connector for the computer 
 TW> slot.

I'm not sure that I see how a problem there would show up like this.

 TW> If that dosne't help swap Video cards with a known good one.

That'll be a move from PCI -> ISA,  but if that's the case then that's
the way I'll go.  That Compaq card has been trouble,  more or less,  since
I got the damn thing.

I'm wondering if there's any possibility of some software glitch causing
this? The other thing that I found when I got back from being away is a big
pile of mail sitting in my inbound directory,  something had screwed up as
far as QEMM was concerned and I had to re-run Optimize in order to get the
system to work reliably,  also had to fiddle with the memory settings for
the bbs and the tosser windows.  I guess I get to do that again if I change
the video card.  I don't recognize all of the address regions being
excluded,  which are C000-C2FF, C500-C5FF, F800-FCFF, and FE00-FFFF.  That
last two look like rom bios or something,  not sure about the other two.

Another thing that surprised me was no messages in here.  NONE.  Until that
post that you're responding to,  and one message immediately preceding your
reply which was from Wayne.  Has this echo been _that_ slow?

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