I have a HP71 17" monitor. It is nice and clear and fairly new and cost almost nothing. I have run it on a PC and on a Mac at various times. But I have always had the oddest problem with it on Macs. I run it on one or other of my 7300 and 7600 on a TwinTurbo card, this card has two sockets, one for a Mac type plug and one for the PC type. The HP has the PC plug. The TT is a type that takes two extra video ram sticks but my problem is independent of whether I fill these slots on the card or not. The problem is this: it is rarely the case that the monitor resolution set is twigged to on first boot up. It is as if the boot up just misses it the setting and defaults to something (640 x 480 and sort of not using the whole screen area too!). restart immediately and it looks as if the same thing is about to happen when - lo and behold - it realises something in the boot up and finds my set and desired monitor setting (1024x768) and it fills the whole screen area right and proper.
Different machines, different ram configs, different ram, different pci slots, reseating, firm seating, throwing out monitor prefs, resetting monitor prefs do not seem to help. I even took the monitor pref file out of the folder of the same name (this arrangement is what is created by default in 9.1 when setting from mon control panel) to assist the machine to find it quick. I have also tried the Twin Turbo control panel but removed this as I thought this was causing the confusion and setting its own pref. I would set the same prefs in both panels... I removed all traces of the TT panel, including pref files, cuda, everything. The problem is totally insoluble and I am writing to you all not in hope of help but to entertain you with a small torture I have suffered for quite a while. To share with you my dirty little secrets. As I say, a couple of starts and all is just hunky dory fine. Perhaps a small price to pay. But do we live in a rational world? Yes, there must be an explanation! David Elmo (BTW I get millions of colours with the video ram slots filled but then can't use them in a 7300 or 7600 with any PCI card to the immediate left because they stick out or foul the case edge! Just a little extra for your entertainment) -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> 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]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
