Broken BlizzVision?

[Brian]

Installed CGFX3 for my BVision today and found that I get about 15-20 vertical lines down the screen (depending on what mode I chuse). Anyone know what can cause this? Broken BV? Bad connection to the BPPC? Interferance? Bad power? Can this be CGFX3's doing? :-(

I'm desperat here... I need this to work so anyone that's encountered this or think they know what can be the cause of this please fill me in.

[Brian]

I don't have anything better than CGFX3 else I would have tossed that pos out the window a long time ago... had weird gfx problems with my CV3D card also with CGFX3 but lucky for me P96 supported that board at least.

1. I do remember that I had to loosen a screw cause I thought the board looked a little out of shape... perhaps it wasn't enough or I needed to tighten both screws exactly the same? I also know that in my tower the BV get very close to the face plats... so close in fact that it might get a little bent on one of the cards that holds my flickerfixer output. It could cause bad connection I guess?

2. Power should be no problem... The tower have a bussboard and the BPPC is connected to this board and as the bussboard also have a power input I would like to think that would be enough.

3. I don't think it's a heat problem as the lines (these are inverted color vertical 1 pixel whide lines) comes emediatly after a reset and the P2 chip have a heatsing on it.

Tried 800*600 (won't go any higher for unknown reasons) in 8-24bit and all modes produced these lines though if I remember correctly it was sligtly fewer lines on lesser color modes.

[Brian]

Well.. I installed CGFX4.3 and the problem dissapeared from 24bit modes but the rest still have those "vertical noice lines". So I guess we can rule out software which leaves just the hardware left... I don't like it but the facts say the card is somewhat defective. :-(