msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS) (02/28/91)
I have bought a NEC MultiSync 2A monitor, but my VGA card has some trouble with 800x600 modes. It is a Tseng ET3000 based card with 512K, 8 bits (a Puretek VGA Ultra) which seems to be Orchid Pro Designer compatible. When I put my monitor in 800x600, either 16 or 256 colors, the monitor clicks and gives a faded, horizontally shrunk image. When I load the BIOS into RAM (the TurboVGA.COM program), 800x600x16 works, but still clicks. The BIOS version is 8.00, both ROM and RAM. Is there anything I can do to make it work? Perhaps a new BIOS version? Would it be legal if someone sent me one? Can the monitor be damaged by using 800x600 modes anyway? Thanks in advance, Michael Schaap msschaa@cs.vu.nl
hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan) (03/01/91)
In <9129@star.cs.vu.nl> msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Schaap MS) writes: |I have bought a NEC MultiSync 2A monitor, but my VGA card |has some trouble with 800x600 modes. | |It is a Tseng ET3000 based card with 512K, 8 bits |(a Puretek VGA Ultra) which seems to be Orchid Pro Designer |compatible. | |When I put my monitor in 800x600, either 16 or 256 colors, |the monitor clicks and gives a faded, horizontally shrunk |image. | |When I load the BIOS into RAM (the TurboVGA.COM program), |800x600x16 works, but still clicks. | |The BIOS version is 8.00, both ROM and RAM. | |Is there anything I can do to make it work? Perhaps a new |BIOS version? Would it be legal if someone sent me one? | |Can the monitor be damaged by using 800x600 modes anyway? | Hi there, That click you keep hearing, is yer NEC multisync switching from one mode to another (I reckon it has to to some fancy stuff in 800x600 modes). So this click is absolutely normal! It doesn't harm yer monitor (that is even after years of work in 800x600, the NEC still works perfectly ok) because this is how it should work! So don't bother about this... -- +------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | Hayo R. Baan | E-Mail : hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl | | Oudwijkerlaan 34 |-----------------------------------------------------| | 3581 TD UTRECHT | | | The Netherlands | A program is like a nose; | | | Sometimes it runs, sometimes it blows. | | Tel. 030-515586 | | +------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ -- +------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | Hayo R. Baan | E-Mail : hrbaan@cs.ruu.nl |