     V7 is a combination of VS and VSOEM for use with Video7/VEGA video
systems.  This is not to imply that such systems work just like video
systems supported by a VESA Bios Extension (VBE), it's just that V7 tries
to report what information it can find about Video7/VEGA hardware--after
first establishing that such hardware is present, and also reports the
correlation between the Video7/VEGA modes and the standard OEM video modes.
Like VS, V7 outputs to the file MODES.LST, either in your current directory,
or in the root directory of wherever V7.EXE was when you ran it.
(V7 does not, in fact, report all the information that VS does; all that
information isn't provided on Video7/VEGA systems like it is with VESA-aware
systems.)

     Since, like VS in its mode-confirmation mode, V7 attempts to put your
monitor into video modes that it does not know a priori that your monitor
supports, just as with VS, I must insist that you use this program at YOUR
OWN RISK.  In particular, I recommend that you DO NOT use V7 (or VS with its
mode-confirmation option) if you have a monochrome monitor, especially if
your video card supports color.  (Now that I've scared you to death, I'll
point out that, and again this is NO GUARANTEE, I've run V7 on my computer
and the vast majority of video modes that V7 put my Video7 card into are not
supported by my monitor--my monitor still works fine.  I think that, and
still again this is NO GUARANTEE, other than the monochrome monitor/color
video card situation, the real big problem here is leaving your monitor in
an unsupported mode for a long period of time.  If you don't see indications
of one video mode being changed rather rapidly to the next, or V7 takes more
than several seconds to return you to the DOS prompt, or there are any other
indications that V7 has hung your computer, you might want to REBOOT YOUR
COMPUTER IMMEDIATELY.)  One thing you can do, "to be safe," is turn your
monitor off while running V7--that is, if you know you have VEGA/Video7
support (perhaps from running VEGA) and don't need to see the message saying
you don't.  V7 will beep when it's done to let you know you can turn your
monitor back on.  (If you don't hear a beep relatively soon, and you know
your speaker works, reboot your computer--and then turn your monitor back
on.)
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