Greetings again;

    I took a few hours and tested each monitor for its maximum resolution,
refresh rate and colour quality. It seemed that a number of them would take
no more than 640 by 480, 256 colours and 56 hz or 60 hz. I seem to remember
(from about 12 or 13 years ago I think), that when SVGA was becoming more in
use I had trouble with several monitor brands dealing with the drivers that
came with the newer video cards. (I was in the computer business then).
Trying various drivers in Win98SE was unsuccessful, and as the school has to
have 800 by 600 and 16 bit colour, these monitors are of no use.

    We will try to find someone who wants these monitors, but am rather
doubtful of success.

    Thanks for the replies.

Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea & Bill Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Old Monitors


Greetings;

    I volunteer at my children's school in the computer lab. There are a
number of old 14 inch monitors that seem unable to deal with the labs newer
computers (266 Mhz to 350 Mhz PII's). The picture is like the vertical or
horizontal hold is incorrect and it continually flips rapidly no matter what
settings I use. I have set the refresh rate to 56 hz and the resolution to
640 by 480, but to no avail. I have tried a few of them on a Pentium 166
with the same results. I have also tried adjusting the pots on the few that
had them accessible.

    Are these monitors just too old or is there something I missed? If they
are just too old, is there any other use for them?

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