AW: artifacts on my IBM A30p display...

[Jesse Guardiani]

Reifenberger Michael EXT wrote:

> Hi,
> your A30p System-board is defect.
> I had this twice before and got the Systemboard changed by IBM.
> 
> It's a nightmare to get reproduced by IBM though...
> - They don't know what text-mode is because they boot windoof immediatly
> and
>   the failure doesn't show up there easily.
> - You should take a few Pictures of the crippled BIOS (IBM-Logo) screen
>   so they couldn't say it's by broken device-drivers.
> - Don't say you are using FreeBSD!
> 
> Good Luck
> (Hopefully your Notebook isn't out of service)

Yeah, lucky me. It *is* out of service. Do you think I could limp
by if I purchase a docking station and install a PCI video card?

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