Try use "Plug and Play" as your monitor, and low the refresh rate to 60hz,
color to 16bit. A lot of old monitors won't work if refresh rate is higher
and/or in 24/32 bit color.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Zeoli" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:33 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Monitor Problem


> I just had the unfortunate experiance of turning on my machine and having
a
> loud pop and a cloud of smoke come out of my 13 month old KDS 17" monitor.
> They are sending me a new one but in the mean while I took my old Packard
> Bell (PB8537SVGA) monitor from the basement and I am trying to get it to
> work.
> I deleted the KDS monitor from device manager and added new hardware but
my
> monitor was not listed in the PB types so I tried the PB8528SVG which did
> not work, I also tried the standard monitor selection. Unfortunately I can
> not find the PB driver disk.  I can get a desk top of 640x480 to work okay
> but I can not get a 800 x 600 resolution to work.  This monitor did
display
> that resolution on my last machine a year ago.  The specs say it is
capable
> of a 1024x768 resolution. I searched Windrivers.com for a driver.  There
is
> a page that says to use the PB8528SVGL driver for 95&98 for this model
> monitor but the link to down load the driver does not work.  I tried about
> every generic and PB driver in windows but did not get any results.  Any
> thoughts on where I might be able to find this driver or another that will
> help me to get to 800x600?

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