>Can anyone throw some light on this please.
>
>I recently visited a student who had bought a shiny new Win95 system but who
>was really a DOS/Hal screen reader user. I re-installed DOS6 for her by
>booting from the DOS set-up floppy and allowing it to reformat the hard
>disk.
>
>The system works OK but exhibits some odd video effects. At the C: prompt
>everything appears OK - white on black. In WP51 the (usual blue) screen
>becomes a soft rainbow of colour the like of which I've never seen on a PC
>(the colours aren't banded rather they're softy blended patches of colour.)
>Everything continues to work properly including the screen reader and it
>doesn't worry the student who has no useful sight but it is rather bizzare.
>
>Any suggestions/solutions?
>
>Phil
>
>Phil Satchell
>Technical Project Officer, Office for Students with Disabilities
>Open University
I am no expert, but I got this sort of thing after my monitor was exposed
to a strong magnetic feild. While the text was warped during the feild, it
was OK after, but areas of the screen were, as you say, filled with graded
colours.
Apolagies if this is no help!
Narender Ramnani
Wellcome Research Fellow
Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology
Leopold Muller Functional Imaging Laboratory
Institute of Neurology
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London WC1N 3BG
UK
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