Mark, I'll boot one of my alpha's today and post the contents of a private server dcl file that works for me. On an S3 Trio card, I have no 3Dlabs hardware. Hans PS The 3Dlabs card is software settable, right? Not a jumper setting that must be changed. Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel -----Original Message----- From: Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:59:25 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] Introduction On 17 Jun 2011, at 23:52, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: Did you just put the assgnment in that .COM file? It ought to be a DEFINE statement. Try: search decw*.com refresh That shows how it is done regulalrly To boot without getting in a loop: B -fl 0,1 dka100 SYsboot> set startup_p1 "min" Sysboot> continue Yeah I got out of it that way (thanks to Steve Davidson for the earlier guidance on conversational boot procedure). The problem is I don't think it IS set anywhere, the default for 3DLabs cards seems to be 1024x768 at 70Hz which is exactly what it's running at. Without knowing where to put the command to change the refresh rate and how to format it I'm pretty sure I'm out of luck, there probably aren't any examples anywhere. HP's Docs, and Steve Hoffman's, both tell you to use SYS$MANAGER:DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM to define the server properties. Tired. Gonna go to bed. -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..."