On Wednesday 05 November 2003 03:56 pm, Andrea & Bill Lee wrote:
> 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?
>
> Bill

Bill:
First off, have you tried less bit depth? If that doesn't do any good, than
I'd look at the drivers. Three possibilities come to mind:
1. Video card driver
2. Monitor driver
3. Motherboard chipset driver

The next order of business would be to go to the various manufacturers'
websites to see if there are appropropiate drivers for whatever OS you're
using.

It isn't always an easy matter to determine who actually built the component
in question -- this is particularly true for monitors. You can work around
that by ascertaining the FCC ID number and then going to:
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/.

Best regards,
Carroll Grigsby

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