David wrote:
-snip-
>Getting this PB180 going, and one of the
>ingredients is a circa 1996 OEM ATi XCLAIM
>GA video card for a second monitor.
>
>It's no better than on-board video (but does
>have optional RAM attached). Both are based
>on ATi's Mach 64 chipset, about the only
>difference I can see is the on board is maybe
>early 3D (according to ASP).
>
>Anyway. I had started with a fresh 8.1 a few
>days ago and later moved to 8.5.1 and 8.6
>when I found my C
>But my 8.5.1 and 8.6 installs seemingly
>"forgot" to install any ATi extensions
>whatsoever, so I did a Custom Install just for
>the ATi software. When I restarted the card
>was dead black.
-snip-
>Next up to bat is a slightly older Thunder 30/
>1152. Have RaduisWare, will travel. It works
>fine, but the monitor I hooked up to it is an
>Apple 12". Idiot: The card does a minumum of
>640X480, the monitor only does 512X384.
>
>Reboot with the 12" hooked to the on board
>video, the other hooked to the Thunder card.
>
>The Thunder'd monitor still looks great, the
>little monitor, having just taken a beating,
>looks pale and a bit out of focus.
>
>No tweaking will bring it back to former glory. It
>now looks it's best with Contrast all the way up
>and Brightness all the way down, when
>previously those controls left in the middle
>yielded one of the finest, sharpest pictures I've
>seen. Now, on the edges of the screen it looks
>like it's being overdriven.
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Guru says the PowerBase supports resolutions from 640x480..
may be that the onboard is overscanning the card
which is the other monitor that won't display with the ATI PCI card?
I keep a 12" mono around for testing cards...works with everything
also good is the Apple 13" Trinitron
Sounds like you've been beating yourself up with a couple of bad combinations.
Cheers...Michael
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