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- From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
- Subject: Re: 1 meg video memory 512k monitor help?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.111716.4347@opus40.ix.de>
- Sender: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
- Organization: iX-Redaktion
- References: <1992Nov19.114608.22623@vpnet.chi.il.us> <1992Nov19.145316.13674@news2.cis.umn.edu> <Bxz73t.F4x@ns1.nodak.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:17:16 GMT
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- In article <Bxz73t.F4x@ns1.nodak.edu>, wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov19.145316.13674@news2.cis.umn.edu> bloc0017@student.tc.umn.edu (The DuDe) writes:
- |> >
- |> >have one megabyte of video memory but I did not know that not all monitors
- |> >support 1 meg. my monitor only supports 640 x 480 and I was wondering if
- |> >anyone either had a program around this or knows of a way around it.
- |>
- |> You are going to have to take the chips back, or buy a new monitor. There
- |> is not software fix for this since this is a result of the hardware design
- |> (the monitor physically cant scan fast enough to go to the higher
- |> resolutions).
- |>
- |> Non-autosyncing monitors like yours usually have pretty cruddy dot pitch
- |> ratings (usually .39 or worse) anyway, so higher resolutions would be
- |> VERY fuzzy anyway.
- |>
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- And will very probably destroy your monitor irreversibly.
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