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    PC displays graphical symbols

    found the problem, a ram module wasn't completely seated. who would believe that this would cause this type of problem. i've never seen it happen before. sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees, you know? lol...thanks again for the help.
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    PC displays graphical symbols

    uh-ho, it looks like the video card is part of the mother board. what do i do now? any suggestions? thanks cookie
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    PC displays graphical symbols

    [mudskipper], correct on all assumptions. sorry i didn't make it more clear. i will try a different video card. thanks to all for your help. cookie
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    PC displays graphical symbols

    can't be keyboard because it happens at bootup (displays symbols). i mentioned input, because all input (excluding alpha a-z) from keyboard is converted to symbols also. i can't get to windows, so everything is happening in DOS. i have run fdisk, reformatted the harddrive, and it still...
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    PC displays graphical symbols

    i'm looking at a hewlett packard pc (belongs to someone else) that displays graphical symbols instead of numbers, periods, semicolons, colons, etc. inputting data is the same, i press any of the keys listed above , and get a symbol on the screen. it starts at bootup. alpha (a-z) input and...
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    Evaluate Page()

    I use the following code to obtain 'current' page in a datawindow for print purposes. It worked fine in PB 5.04, but I have migrated to PB 8.01, and it doesn't work. Has anybody encountered this problem? Thanks. greg row = idw_dw.GetRow() tmp = idw_dw.describe("evaluate('page()',&quot...

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