[comp.sys.amiga] 3000,PROGEN,1950

NJ_GOKEM%FANDM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (07/03/90)

>From:  edu%"schur@venera.isi.edu"      "Sean Schur"  3-JUL-1990 12:06:26.70
You write

>I got my 3000 last week and cannot get my Progen genlock to work properly with
>the machine and 1950 multisync monitor. If I have my Progen plugged in to the
>video slot of the 3000 the disply on the multisync goes haywire. It turns dark
>grey and flips like mad making the montior completely unreadable. This happens
>whether the monitor is plugged in to the output of the genlock (via the VGA to
>23 pin adaptor that came with the monitor) or with the monitor plugged directly
<in to the VGA output of the computer (while the genlock is still using the
>video out). Strangely enough the output of the genlock itself is fine when
>viewed on a regular composite monitor AND the picture was fine when I plugged
>my old Amiga monitor into the 23 pin output from the 3000 through the genlock.
>So I suspect the problem is with the multisync monitor. Also, the manual and
>everyone I've spoken to says to try flipping the switch on the display
>enhancer to disable, but this doesn't change a thing.
>
>Any help or suggestions?

I think It has something to do with the feedback from the PROgen, IT probably
uses the EXTCLK line into the Amiga. Maybe it does not send this through to
the output orso. That is what I think but it could be complete bogus.

Nils Gokemeijer (NJ_GOKEM@FANDM.bitnet)
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