Welcome back, we've missed your PowerComputing Knowledge and pithy coments.
There's been very little humor of late.
RHB
Robert H. Baucom - Certified Curmudgeon
I'm in Borrego Springs,CA for the winter. Send E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Until April 1st '04
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michael S. Macdonald writes:
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)
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