Lo-Res sync problm

[XimeR]

I've got a weird problem on my 1200 which is causing the screen to mess up when using what I assume is a Lo-Res screen mode.

If I boot from floppy, all is fine, however if I boot from my HD using PAL Hi-Res, and THEN use a prog such as SysInfo or D-Paint. The screen goes 'squiggly'......

If I boot the same progs from their floppys they work just fine though, so not sure where there problem lies.

Any ideas?

[XimeR]

Anyone?

[ajk]

Monitor driver in DEVS: corrupt somehow? How about NTSC lores modes, do they work? Booting with no startup-sequence and doing loadwb from the shell produce any kind of different result?

[thomas]

Does not need to be corrupted. Just wrong drivers can cause this already. Looks like using DblPAL or DblNTSC on a TV. If anything but NTSC or PAL is in Devs/DosDrivers, move it out of there.

Also run Prefs/IControl and disable "mode promotion".

Could also be caused by using an NTSC Amiga on a PAL-only TV or vice versa. At least SysInfo does not specify a specific monitor ID but uses the default mode which defaults to the Amiga's norm, no matter what drivers are present in Devs/DosDrivers.

[XimeR]

Thanks fellas, it's working perfectly now

The Monitors dir was filled with all sorts. I've left PAL in there and moved the rest to storage.

I should have known this, but after all these years of being stuck on a PC, it seems I've even forgotten the basics.

I've also unchecked 'mode protection' as advised, but out of interest, what does that do?

Thanks a lot.
Marc.

[thomas]

It's mode promotion, not protection.

If DblPAL is in Devs/Monitors and the Workbench screen is in DblPAL mode and an application requests to open a PAL screen, then the application's screen is opened in DblPAL instead. Same for NTSC and DblNTSC.