Hi Stuart,


What you describes looks like what happens when I launch Guide and it does not
find the CD ROM, either it is not in the drive or the drive's letter has
changed because my external Iomega Zip drive is (or is not) connected.

For example, when powered on, my zip drive has letter E: and the cd-rom the
letter F:. So in startup.mar there are the following lines
18 drive f:\
63 real CD f
But when I boot the PC and the zip drive is not connected or not powered on,
the cd-rom becomes e: instead of f:. So I have to modify the lines 18 and 63
accordingly.

To avoid such problems, it is possible to copy the Guide cd-rom (or use the
install option) onto the hard disk, whose drive letter is unlikely to be
modified.


Cordialement

Laurent Zimmermann
http://users.skynet.be/zmn/cab

----- Original Message -----
From: shugal333 <stuarts@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 6:17 PM
Subject: [guide-user] 'Stars all changed to huge blobs' error


> Every now and then when I load Guide 7 (with latest update), and now
> it seems with Guide 8, all the stars are extended to huge blobs.
> I've tried changing the magnitude settings, zooming in and out, and
> stuff to do with how the size of stars are shown on screen but
> nothing works....except a reinstall.
>
> Does anyone recognise this ??
>
> I have an untested theory it maybe something to do with using my ZIP
> drive without rebooting before loading Guide...but I'm not sure...
> Is there any memory issues, graphic card issues that may set this
> off ?
>
> thanks
> stuart