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- From: Philip Chung <ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk>
- 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: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:17:57 +0000
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
- Message-ID: <312991C5.388F@brunel.ac.uk>
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- Doug Smith wrote:
- >
- > Chris Appleton wrote in demon.tech.amiga about "Re: SVGA Monitor connection
- > to an Amiga???":
- > > 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.
-
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- __/\_\__ Philip Chung
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- \/_/\_\/_/ Brunel, the University of West London
- \/_/ Uxbridge, UK
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