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- From: paul_h@jenson.com (Paul)
- Newsgroups: demon.tech.amiga,de.comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SVGA Monitor connection to an Amiga???
- Date: 21 Feb 96 14:41:40 GMT
- Organization: Jenson Technology Group Ltd.
- Message-ID: <1996Feb21.144140.198@jenson.demon.co.uk>
- References: <560917443wnr@hemmings.demon.co.uk> <312991C5.388F@brunel.ac.uk>
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- In article <312991C5.388F@brunel.ac.uk>, Philip Chung <ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk>
- writes:
-
- >> > This had me going for *ages*. I got a multisync, and it needed a VGA
- >> > adaptor to work. I tried making them, but I'm crap at soldering and
- >> > I kept getting rotten signals. So i bought one that worked fine. I opened
- >
- >> When I added my CV64 and attempted to use the adaptor that was supplied
- >> with my Microvitec, the Amiga would refuse to boot, black screen,
- >> the hard drive spinning up and down in 1 second bursts.
- >>
- >> Obviously, this gave me cause for concern, but changing the adaptor
- >> to a standard CBM made one cured it.
- >
- > What's the difference between the CBM one and a third-party one? (And where
- > can I get one). I bought an adapter from 1st Choice Computers, but it would
- > not work with my monitor (no display), but did work with another monitor, even
- > though the sync rates are the same for both monitors, the only difference being
- > was that my monitor had microprocessor controls and the other didn't.
-
- I found some VGA monitors did not work on my A500plus in productivity screen
- mode with the CBM adaptor. There were a couple of work-arounds:
-
- 1) set your workbench background colour from grey to black - very ugly!
-
- 2) get a program called brdrblack, which puts a black border around the edge of
- the screen.
-
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