you have an alternative to replacing the graphics card - you can add
another one. then you could use two monitors - you'd probably need a
second monitor because of the digital interfaces on new macs/monitors.
-James
> > Hi, we have just purchased a new "quicksilver" G4 to help speed up
>> gel analysis using ABI's Sequencing Analysis 3.4.1 (and MacOs 9.2),
>> but are seeing what appears to be an incompatibility with the std
>> graphics card. When scrolling across a gel image, the screen fails to
>> refresh properly, and newly appearing bits of the gel have large gaps
>> in them where the screen only draws grey, and / or the tracking lines
>> are missing. This is far worse when scrolling from side to side, than
>> when scrolling up/down. If you collapse and reopen the gel file
>> window, the screen redraws correctly, but as soon as you scroll, it
>> corrupts again.
>>>> Has anyone else encountered this, knows of a fix? We have tried
>> increasing program memory, changing screen resolutions and colour
>> depths, swapping monitors etc, all to no avail. ABI's only suggestion
>> to date was to remove the graphics card and revert to a poorer
>> quality one which seems somewhat of a throwback approach. NB. it
>> behaves perfectly when run on the previous design G4 minitower, or on
>> a titanium G4 powerbook (both MacOs 9.1)
>>>> Thanks
>Hi,
>>I have encountered the same problem with a G4, scrolling through a 377 gel
>image causes the screen fails to refresh properly thereby leaving large
>sections of the screen blank unless I collaspe the window and reopen it. I
>have yet to find a fix for this problem. Would love to hear it if anyone
>has the solution.
>>>Matthew Randesi
>Lab Manager, DNA Sequencing Laboratory
>The Protein/DNA Technology Center
>HHMI / The Rockefeller University
>1230 York Ave., Box 105
>New York, New York 10021
>>http://protein13-pc.rockefeller.edu>>212-327-7545
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