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  • May 31, 2000 at 9:08 am #2080698

    Full Screen Mode = Black Screen of Death

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    by markspencer · about 24 years, 4 months ago

    I am running TERm, a terminal emulation program from a Windows 98 PC to access our Unix server. This is the older DOS version of TERM. It’s worked fine for everyone but this one machine. I have an icon on the desktop to access teh executable, setto run in full screen mode. The screen goes black and you have to hit the reset button on CPU (Control-Alt-Delete does not work). However, if you set it to run in a Window, program works. We prefer full screen mode because of text font and size, etc. I deleted program and reinstalled it – no difference. Any suggestions?

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    • May 31, 2000 at 9:13 am #3893344

      Full Screen Mode = Black Screen of Death

      by kyle · about 24 years, 4 months ago

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      I also use TERm and have seen the same issue. In my case it turned out to be the way term and the video card were interacting. I had a Voodoo 3 3000 card and it just wouldnt work.
      I threw in an old 4mb card and had no problems with lockup on full screen mode. I would recommend a switch in the card…what cards are the other mnachines using?

    • May 31, 2000 at 10:50 am #3893329

      Full Screen Mode = Black Screen of Death

      by jerryat187 · about 24 years, 4 months ago

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      I have a ati rage 128,32mb,i run it on full screan mode on wintv,the seting have to be on 16 bit hi colour,or i get black screan.

    • May 31, 2000 at 3:08 pm #3893297

      Full Screen Mode = Black Screen of Death

      by babygummi · about 24 years, 4 months ago

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      try changing the video card. It could be a case of incompatibality. I have not work on TERm before but there are cases where motherboards does not support newer versions of Video cards, thus flashing the Bios is an option for comps.Hope it helps. Good luck.

    • June 1, 2000 at 5:46 am #3893123

      Full Screen Mode = Black Screen of Death

      by tuck46 · about 24 years, 4 months ago

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      try dropping the resolution and going to 256 colors. also make sure you dont have stretch
      checked in your display settings.

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