On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:26:27 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> Gregy,
> (Gerald, are you copying this?)
> Tenth anniversary edition is now *3 inches* thick and needs luggage cart to
> carry it around. Visit your Costco (Price Club) to get it at a "reasonable"
> price. However, after reading www.repairfaq.org/sam/ffmon.htm, particularly
> their comments on the 9515, and what is needed to even make a 9517 display a
> halfway decent display, albeit off center, would not make rushing down to a
> store a priority. It appears that 95xx monitors are a fixed frequency
> monitor designed to work *only* with early PS/2's and their abandoned MCGA
> display mode. In fact, there is no mention of 95xx monitors in the tenth
> anniversary edition. If the ID pin configuration doesn't work, the 9517
> probably should be placed in the recycling bin.
Roger ........usually i agree with us, and mostly I do here, also,
except:
1) Gerald already gets good display under Win95 using
SciTechDisplayDoctor. He wants to run DOS only, so
that means finding some drivers for DOS.
2) I went to that URL you gave (and I thank you very much,
because it sent me in some other good places) and I saved
that page......If your look, there is a fix for the 9517,
which if it was my monitor, I'd build it in a heartbeat.
3) Those 9515s are XGA-2, and apparently they don't modify
at all.....the 9517 has been modified successfully.
4) I am not now looking for an electronic modification solution
for Geralds problem. I saw some XGA drivers on the old
IBM PCCompany BBS, and have now pretty much tracked them
down on where those files were finally archived, when
IBM shut the BBS down, 1NOV99....
5) The optimum solution is drivers, which work, or which can
be disassembled/reassembled to work.....an electronic
modification is probably a last resort, since Gerald does
not state he is an electronics technician.....his son is
apparently something of a literate user, but I don't know
if he is a technician.....so, prime solution is software.
6) If we cannot come up with a driver solution, I will suggest
that Gerald run Arachne under Win95 (where he gets good
display using SciTechDisp.Dr.).....this is why I have also
been enquirying about those who are now successful running
Arachne under Win95.....I don't intend to suggest Gerald
toss his monitor, since he still gets good use out of it...
just not under DOS......
gregy
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