A600 - Corrupted window borders in Workbench

acrin1 · 29 March 2021, 20:00

Hi,

I’ve recently bought an A600 which works well but has a problem where the left and right borders for Workbench windows appear corrupted sometimes. It doesn’t appear to affect games or DPaint. It only seems to happen if I set workbench to use less than 16 colours.

I’ve changed the kickstart ROM to 3.1, tried different workbench versions and recapped the majority of the motherboard (still have audio caps to do).

Grateful for any suggestions.

Thanks

lesta_smsc · 29 March 2021, 21:32

Check screen mode in prefs. I wonder whether that is set incorrectly resulting in this as games and apps are independent of screen mode for Workbench.

Torti-the-Smurf · 29 March 2021, 21:49

Did you make a fresh install ? .. or do you use the stuff that was aready on the HD/CF/SD ?
hmmm
Simplest thing i guess would be to boot from a Workbench 3.1 floppy and see what happends there.

Jope · 30 March 2021, 09:04

Just to be sure, try running a mbrtest-2 with all the tests for many cycles on your Chip RAM.

It could be a broken blitter.

acrin1 · 30 March 2021, 15:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jope

Just to be sure, try running a mbrtest-2 with all the tests for many cycles on your Chip RAM.

It could be a broken blitter.

Thanks I’ll give mbrtest-2 a try.

Thanks for the other suggestions as well - I have tried various screen modes including both NTSC and PAL and the same issue shows up. I’ve also tried various versions of Workbench from both CF card to Workbench boot disks.

29 March 2021, 20:00	#1
acrin1 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: UK Posts: 2	A600 - Corrupted window borders in Workbench Hi, I’ve recently bought an A600 which works well but has a problem where the left and right borders for Workbench windows appear corrupted sometimes. It doesn’t appear to affect games or DPaint. It only seems to happen if I set workbench to use less than 16 colours. I’ve changed the kickstart ROM to 3.1, tried different workbench versions and recapped the majority of the motherboard (still have audio caps to do). Grateful for any suggestions. Thanks Attached Thumbnails

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29 March 2021, 21:32	#2
lesta_smsc Registered User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 3,173	Check screen mode in prefs. I wonder whether that is set incorrectly resulting in this as games and apps are independent of screen mode for Workbench.

29 March 2021, 21:49	#3
Torti-the-Smurf Registered User Join Date: Dec 2018 Location: Earth Posts: 1,058	Did you make a fresh install ? .. or do you use the stuff that was aready on the HD/CF/SD ? hmmm Simplest thing i guess would be to boot from a Workbench 3.1 floppy and see what happends there.

30 March 2021, 09:04	#4
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	Just to be sure, try running a mbrtest-2 with all the tests for many cycles on your Chip RAM. It could be a broken blitter.

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