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- From: "A.J. LoCicero" <cicero@wwnet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Monitor Questions
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:16:30 +0100
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- I've been wanting to add a high resolution monitor to my A1200 system
- for some time now. A few months ago, I bought an old NEC Multisync (the
- original one), got a cable from Redmond Cable, and tried it out. The
- results were not very satisfactory--in DblNTSC and Multisync
- Productivity modes the screen was dim, and the image very small. the
- image also became distorted and broke up at the very top. I fooled
- around with MonEd to see if that could correct it, but I was not able to
- ever get a really usable image.
-
- Then I tried a different NEC I and similar results, but a bit brighter
- and cleaner picture.
-
- Now a NEC II multisync has fallen into my posession. This monitor
- SHOULD work. 5-6 years ago this was the one that everyone told you to
- get! Before I ever hooked it up to the Amiga, I tried it out on a
- friends PC. It seemed to work perfectly.
-
- I have now tried it out on my Amiga. The 15 Khx modes are fine, but
- when I try to go into the high resolution modes I still have problems.
-
- This time the image is bigger, and much brighter than on the NEC I, but
- it still is way distorted at the top, and doesn't come close to filling
- the screen.
-
- I've also tried using VGAonly, but that doesn't work at all! The
- machine just defaults to regular old NTSC Hires, even when the only
- monitor driver installed is VGAonly.
-
- One potential problem is the cable, I suppose. I asked Redmond for a
- NEC I to Amiga cable, and now I've got a NEC II. Redmond told me that
- they have a different cable for the II, they said that one was buffered
- and one wasn't. I forget which was which. But I keep thinking "How can
- that be right?" Why would you buffer a monitor cable? It seems like it
- should still work. After all, both NEC Is and IIs were built to operate
- with the same computers. They both have 9 pin connectors etc.
-
- I don't think the problem lies in the cable, however, because the image
- is still better on the NEC II than it was on the NEC I and I'm
- experiencing the same type problems.
-
- I'm wondering now if maybe my chipset is messed up. Are there certain
- chips that control the high-res modes but not the low res?
-
- Does anyone have any idea what my problem is, and how to fix it?
-
- I'd appreciate any suggestions. Please reply to my email address as I
- somtimes miss news posts because they are erased too quickly.
-
- Thanks,
-
- A.J.
- cicero@wwnet.com
-