Picasso II issue (not caused by fblit)

[57goldtop]

The burned resistor is common in that location, I replaced mine with a 1/2 watt size but I don't remember the value ( i believe the values vary from revision to revision ) and I no longer have the machine it was in. Replacing the resistor will unlikely fix that problem.

The symptoms you describe sound to me like it's caused by a weak/under-powered power supply or one that is just about to die. Check the voltages with the PSU under load. I've had the same problem in a couple of systems where lines would appear on the wb screen caused by dragging & resizing windows, hd activity caused it too. The symptoms seemed to increase as I added more to the system.. at least they did in my case.

[57goldtop]

I'm glad my suggestion helped you solve the problem. A failing power supply is not so obvious to detect until you start adding stuff to the system and in your case, it would be easy to suspect the Picasso card when you could not reproduce the problem without it.

I had the exact same problem except my power supply was so on its way out that it was not providing enough power to the card to even kick over the relays that somehow are responsible for utilizing the special screen modes, the result was a rolling/scrolling display that filled up the screen with total garbage.