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Re: tutorial for upgrading a monitor ?
« on: July 04, 2003, 01:31:55 PM »
Well, the sync ranges shouldn't case you any trouble, if your new monitor isn't older than your current one, since 21-inchers are expensive kit, usually with good specs (older ones, though, are often very limited in their resolution ranges, since they tended to be used with a particular card or machine).

Your safest bet, though, if it's a semi-normal VGA monitor, is to either see if it has already got a profile in the admittedly small CGX monitor database (there are also additional profiles on Aminet and the CGX homepage). If not, use the VESA modes (assuming it's CGX 4 you're using), since these tend to be both well-supported and well-aligned on most monitors.
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Re: tutorial for upgrading a monitor ?
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2003, 01:48:49 PM »
Well, if you've got any of them still connected at work, just go into the screenmode selector and make notes of the screenmode settings. Windows will list the suitable ranges for your monitor.
The most failsafe bet (if this is a VGA monitor and not some SUN or SGI thing) if you want your monitor to display a proper picture when you first plug it into your Amiga, is to set the screenmode you're using on your WB to a plain VGA 60 Hz/31 KHz, since it's the basic VGA resolution used at boot-up time by all PCs and in Windows fail-safe mode. Then run CGXMode and edit the prefs to something nicer.
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Draco60/50MHz/128MB/15GB/Altais/DracoMotion/DV/IOblix+net