>Minimizing / Maximizing or Alt-Tabbing clears the problem up but I was just wondering if there were any system setting that might make the problem go completely away.
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Not that I've seen - the hardware acceleration settings don't seem to be involved. What driver set are you using? It'd probably be worth making a run out to ATI's web site to see if they've got a newer driver for your card.
>FYI, all the reviews for the G400 that I've seen are glowing. If they didn't give the card 10 stars it was because the Open Gl drivers for the card aren't optimized yet.
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I'm expecting a system in with one; a SuperMicro S2DG2 motherboard (dual Xeon/dual channel UW2 SCSI, 440GX chipset) system that I'm evaluating for a client for use as an application server under NT Server. Should be interesting; it's basically a beefed up high-end workstation from a custom integrator. We'll be comparing it to an IBM NetFinity box and an HP LH3 (read: beating the crap out of it) and it'll probably hang around for a few days after the testing so that I can try it as a workstation.
The only problem with this is that the last two times I got my hands on one of this guy's boxes, I ended up buying the evaluation unit for my system at home. I've had good results with the vendor (
www.pcnut.com) where I've been able to spec exactly the configuration I wanted; I'm pretty picky about the hardware, and spend far too much time on hardware details, so my usual reservations about custom systems get ignored for me.
The last two NT servers we put in at Weatherhill are boxes from PCNut; essentially the same box I run here at home for my NT Server (P6DGS motherboard, dual PII/450s, Adaptec 7895 chipset (dual channel UW SCSI) with the Adaptec RAIDPort adapter), and they've been super stable under a wide range of loads. I don't recommend this approach to most of my clients. If I weren't doing the support myself, and couldn't be assured of available identical spares, I wouldn't even look, since the main interest is having a server that stay up and running even when I'm not around to perform the necesary ritual sacrifices.
>PF
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>>>Ed,
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>>>I just started a new job and they got me a new computer. It has a ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP in it. I'm not getting any GPFs but moving controls around in the report designer is leaving ghost text on the screen from the prior position of the controls.
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>>>Do you happen to have any suggestions for this one.
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>>Sorry, no I don't. The last ATI Rage card I used was the All-in-Wonder Pro, and the drivers got very good about 8-9 months ago 9there were problems at times with the Report Designer, but minimizing/maximizing it cleaned them right up. I'm pretty happy with the current nVidia offers 9the TNT Reference drivers, and the drivers for the TNT2 that ship with the Diamond V770 are pretty good), and I still believe that matrox has the most consistently good video drivers on the market (I haven't tried a G400 yet, but it's in the works. The G200 is still my preferred card for most NT systems.)
