Recommend a 15KHz compatible monitor...

[Karlos]

Hi all,

I recently had to reflash my blizzppc card which meant booting a genuine AGA early startup screen since the bvision was obviously not recongised.

I have an old 1084 monitor lying around and connected it up. I never realised it had aged so badly. The tube is on the way out I think, very dark, out of focus and lacking any contrast.

Anyhow, I got it reflashed ok but then I started feeling all nostalgic about AGA and put some old demos on, but I could barely watch them...

So I was wondering if any of you could suggest a replacement, preferably something at least dual sync (15 khz / vga), maybe even a flat panel (I seem to recall some Samsung ones could cope with PAL).

Any suggestions?

[Karlos]

Sounds nice but a little pricey :-)

[Karlos]

Madgun68 wrote:
Err, why not just get a scandoubler/ff? Then use any monitor you choose.

Well I already own a 19" monitor that handles 1600x1200 @ 85Hz fine and use that for the BVision and my windoze/linux box.

I just wanted something I could connect to the normal video out for some backwards compatibility (nostlgia mostly).

I'd prefer a 15" sized monitor of some kind, maybe flatscreen  because my work area is a little crowded - two towers, 19" monitor, fullsize midi controller keyboard, some rackmount stuff - you get the picture :-)

[Karlos]

cgutjahr wrote:
@Karlos:

Regarding your original problem (reflashing the BlizzPPC without a 15khz monitor):

Reset your machine and keep the ESC key pressed until the BlizzardPPC's own "startup-menu" comes up. Here you can adjust several things (e.g. disable all unused SCSI nodes, this will speed up the boot process).

Thanks, I actually knew that and have the early startup redirected to the BVision anyway.
The problem is that the flashrom was trashed somehow and the only part of the card that was detected was the 040 chip (no scsi, no ppc, no memory, no bvision). The flash menu wouldnt come up no matter how long I pressed the Esc key...

This has happened to me a few times in the last couple of years. Once it 'forgets' you just cant do anything with it other than reflash it seems.

When the card is reflashed it works fine again.

-edit-

Once I disabled the card (using the '2' key) only to discover you cant re enable it without holding the reset key combination for 10 seconds. Its disabled completely until you do this (reboots included).

What an unbelievably  stupid design :-x

I have a pc keyboard via an eyetech EZ-key interface and it won't hold the KBRESET line for anything like that long.

I had to re flash it then too! :-x

Has anybody else ever had this happen?