Hello, thank you for taking the time to read my self inflicted issue. I just started at a new job, and the boss has given me a project to handle.
I am working on a Proto Trak PT4-V DPMV5, the issue I am having is the VM (control unit screen), once Windows 98 SE Embedded launches the screen seems to shift it self so the the bottom that includes the start button and windows bar is in the center of the screen shifting the top of the screen to the bottom. You can move the mouse and access the whole screen, to get to the start button you have to take the mouse down through the bottom of the screen and it reappears at the top of the screen and you can then reach the start button at the center of the screen. So my question/questions is, does this seem like a software or a hardware issue to you folks? Has anyone encountered this, or used this control units/mills before?
I will post some pictures of the issue soon, I am on my work computer right now and the pictures are on my phone.
A couple other things that I can tell you, at least from what I have been told by my boss. He says he recently just dumped a couple grand into boards, or some kind of electronics on the control unit, he said it worked fine once maybe twice and then it started doing this. I have not opened the case up yet, I plan on doing that tonight or tomorrow if I come in. I did notice that a new GOTEK USB input has been installed on the side of the control unit, along with a SD card reader. In that I found what looks like a small USB wireless dongle, I am unsure as to what it holds, I have been unable to look at it yet, and then obviously a SD card is also in the reader, I will also be checking that out.
Thank you everyone for your time, and possible attention/help. Please let me know if there is any information I have not covered that would be helpful for you to help me figure this issue out.
Add-on- Almost forgot to mention, when I entered the BIOS screen, it too had the bottom of the screen in the middle and the top of the screen starting at the middle ending at the bottom. So this makes me lean more towards a hardware issue.
Thanks folks!
Alma R Webster