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Of course I've googled and tried, albiet briefly, to find a simple (cheap) solution. The biggest problem I have had was basically finding information that repeats. Everyone has a lot of ideas in arcane newsgroups about how you should get this very specific GDM-1960/1961 to work with VGA(sync on green apparently needs SOMETHING modified to make it work with VGA standards, but nobody agrees on what the SOMETHING is.) Everyone with a business wants to sell "their" p.o.s. card to me. I was hoping there was a magical fix so that when I wanted to, I could plug this monitor into MY video card and get a display. I'm not worried about dos or game windows. I just want a Display in windows, period. The info I have seen most often is 1280x1024 standard max res. with a refresh of 72 hz. With these settings configured, if i plug the monitor in, it doesn't work. This has to do with sync incompatibility that can be solved by either a) buying a 50 dollar converter, or building one. I would opt for the building portion if I could just get a clear answer on exactly how to do it. Thanks for the thoughts thus far.... RLK Quoting Bruce Davis <ayden at carolingia.org>: > See comments below. > > Ryan L. Kitchen wrote: > > > I recently acquired a very interesting piece of equipment: A very > > large single sync monitor with 3 (RGB) bnc connections on the back. It > > is marked as a Digital brand model VRT19-HA, but it is also marked as > > a GDM-1961 which I am told indicates the touch of sony? not that it > > matters.... > > > GDM does indicate that this is a Sony CRT. > > > > At any rate, I have a five connector bnc to 15 pin vga cable and i'm > > ready to roll... or am I. It is not a multi sync monitor, it is very > > picky about the vertical and horizontal refresh rates. In good ol' > > Solaris and linux et al you can manually choose these things. I'm sure > > it would work fine on my sparc with my handy dandy 13w3 adapter...but > > i want to use this thing on a pc. I have a geforce 2 256. I also have > > a GeForce 4 Ti4200 that is waiting for a power supply and case to > > power the M.B. that will hold it. I have heard this monitor requires a > > video card that can support a refresh rate of 130 cycles ... I know > > the Geforce 2 goes at least to 120... I'm not sure about the GF4. > > > > This seems rather high. In my last job, I worked with many SGI > monitors, including single and multisync versions. When we would attach > a multisync monitor to a box designed for a single sync monitor, the > multisync monitor adjusted properly and displayed the image correctly at > 75 hz. > > > Basically, I am hardware oriented, but I've never really taken a > > monitor apart or done any significant modifications. I also understand > > how a capacitor works and how large the ones are in CRT based devices > > (such as monitors and tv's). I would prefer to be alive. With all this > > in mind, can anyone enlighten me? I don't really want to buy any other > > video cards, as I have 2 very nice ones already... but is there a home > > made solution to get this thing running? I just don't seem to have > > very many resources. yes I have soldering iron and the necessary know > > how... > > > > I don't think you need to do anything that drastic. I did a quick > google search on GDM-1961 and found the following as the first result > returned: > > Solutions to make ANY MONITOR work on a PC or MAC > http://www.si87.com/MonitorSolutions/sony/gdm1961.html > > It looks like you want a sync converter ($50). > > I'm sure there are other solutions. > > > Many thanks, > > Ryan K. > > > Bruce Davis > Medford, MA > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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