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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga->VGA problem!
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 02:59:36 GMT
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- PD. Scotney (bipds@zeus.bris.ac.uk) wrote:
- : I have just purchased a VGA-adaptor (23pin-15pin) to use with my multisync
- : VGA monitor but I am having problems getting a display.
-
- Is this the silver C= one, or a different one?
-
- : I have tried setting the monitor type in screen-mode prefs to multisync or
- : dblPAL but upon rebooting I get moving lines for a few seconds followed by
- : a pale white screen.
-
- Okay, does the monitor support lower than 31.5 KHz? If not, have you
- tried using the VGAOnly monitor driver?
-
- : A few other things I have noticed though, if I have the adaptor plugged in
- : without the monitor attached my usual PAL TV picture works fine, but if I
- : have the monitor attached as well, either switched on or off, the PAL TV
- : picture is just black.
-
- Sounds like the 23-15 adapter is not buffering the signal and the Amiga
- thinks there is a genlock attached, and tries to get the system clock
- from it. Or the adapter may be miswired or defective.
-
- : My multisync VGA monitor works, as I use it on a PC with a VGA display card.
-
- Try the VGAOnly driver, and check the 23-to-15 adapter.
-
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