dorayme wrote: >> From: Clark Martin >> >> >> dorayme wrote: >>> At long last, I got a better card than the original that came with my >>> QS 933, clearing the way for me to get a bigger screen. >>> >>> But one thing that is puzzling is how to find out the native >>> resolution of my screens without digging out the documentation. .... >>> >> Without check the manf data you'll never really know if the card is >> outputing the maximum resolution of the display. A simple google >> search >> of the model number yielded a screen resolution of 1680 x 1050. >> > > Thanks both you and PeterH. It looks like it is throwing up what I am > calling the native res of the screen and I have changed to 1280 x > 1050 and it looks fine. (It will do. But my thoughts are turning to > bigger and better screens now that I have this fancier card). > > When you put the computer to sleep or the display to sleep (when it > goes blank, not just screensaver) I assume the fan on the graphics > card stops in both of these situations?
The fan will definitely stop when the computer is asleep. I don't think it would stop when the display is asleep. While the display isn't showing anything the video card is still processing information and putting pixels in the display buffer. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
