The PTP is working okay if you hear the bong. That means the startup sequence has checked all the items on the system bus and pronounced them OK.
Your problem is that whatever card is in the PTP is not syncing with the monitor you tried (presumably it wasn't the Colorsync). PTP's came a with third party IXMicro cards as standard equipment, usually the 8 meg version, although some of the last off the line had 2 and 4 mb versions. It's pretty easy to check if that is the card installed in your PTP simply by opening the side and checking the card. The IXMicro 'twin turbo' was a pretty skookum card in it's day, and relatively trouble free, easy to set up if the software was installed, and would run most monitors even without the control panel being installed. Try your colorsync with the unit. It is highly unlikely that you can or will damage your monitor with the stock IXmicro card. Then scout around for another video card to plug into one of the other 5 PCI slots you have. The PTP can run up to six monitors, and having at 2 monitors running makes your time at the keyboard much more fun. Cheers...Michael (hello again) >Hi, I have a PTpro225, thats sitting dead in the water right now. >Can I try to hook up the PTP Box to my Mac Colorsync working monitor, >and check to see if the video cards the problem, and not risk hurting >the Colorsync 20" monitor?? in case the video card in the PTP is >damaged? I get a startup chime on the ptp, and it sound like its >starting up )but the dead screen is just a half size horizontal grey and >nothing shows up on the desktop, so I cant tell if the PTPs actually >working.. -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
