diagnosing possible hardware problem

[Felix Miata]

On 06/10/14 10:33 (GMT-0700) Constantine Evans apparently typed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> On 06/10/13 23:48 (GMT-0700) Constantine Evans apparently typed:

>>> Tod Merley may be right - it could be that 
>>> this is a problem with something connected to the drive.

>> What do you mean by "something"? All there is is 4 screws, a power cable,
>> and one of the 3 ribbon cables I used, connected only to the device and the
>> motherboard.

> Either the controller on the motherboard, or some sort of IDE problem. 
> But I'm really not sure.

On further thought I have the idea that it could be AGP card related, but
can't imagine a way to actually prove it, only to make the problem go away
if it is. Running XFCE I see no kind of apparent screen corruption. The card
is ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2X. I got it as one of a dozen pulls from my brother,
who couldn't find W2K drivers for them that worked right, and replaced them
all with something else that made his problems go away. Those I subsequently
installed in other systems using W2K or WXP had similar trouble, but they
seemed to be fine using W9x. Maybe the problem isn't the W2K/WXP driver but
rather the card itself.

I just put in a newer ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP without the 2X and removable RAM
modules. Maybe that will fix it. If it doesn't, I might stick an old Matrox in.
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