Re: Alphalock weirdness



In article <3723d98f4d.acorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Sykes
<URL:mailto:acorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just put an Alphalock (0.73 firmware version) in my SA Risc PC
> with RISC OS 4.37. It seems to initialise and respond to commands OK,
> but my monitor has red vertical lines through sprites in 256 colour
> modes and a bit of red snow showing. What gives?

Sounds like a vram hardware faulty.

Though i would say try removing alphalock first, if that doesn't fix it:

Remove vram (clean contacts if you have something suitable) refit.

n.b. just the removal and refitting is often enough to make good connections!


Chris Evans

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