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To: TraderAlan who wrote (11176)	8/14/2000 9:39:09 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

One thing is for sure... It was a lot easier to diagnose video problems about 5 years ago, when you were dealing with ISA video cards. With today's complications in video card standards, the complexity of other hardware, let alone newer versions of Windows, what might be a simple hardware problem can lead you on a wild goose chase taking hours if not days. Rich

To: TraderAlan who wrote (11176)	8/14/2000 10:58:12 PM
From: RC Stein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Hi Alan. The AGP card in my Dell went bad after 3 months, but Mr.Dell came out the next day and replaced it. It was a NVIDIA geFORCE with 32 meg of memory. It happened very slowly, started out freezing up when I was playing high graphic video games like Unreal Tournament. I tried everything including drivers to fix it, course didn't know it was a card going bad. Finally one day it popped up with gray lines all over the screen. The dell repairman showed it to me,,, the fan on the card had quit blowing and wouldn't even turn by hand. You might check your card fan first... Richard