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)
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Hi David...as another dual-port Twin Turbo owner (until recently; I just
swapped it with someone on the swap-list), I have to say that, while it
is a nice card for its time, I've had similar "issues"...I've found that
using the VGA port with PC monitors can be an invitation to having the
monitor forget your settings at startup. Moving it to the old-style Mac
(DB-15) plug, with an adapter, seemed to solve the problem.
I also found that occasionally trashing the Display Prefs was needed to
avoid foul-ups; sometimes it gets corrupted, & this happens on all sorts
of set-ups under the Classic OS, not just with the TT.
I've also installed the IMS drivers, version 4.0.6, they seemed to help
better than the earlier ones. I never used the control panel, it just
seemed to get in the way of the Monitors & Sound panel, & Adobe Gamma.
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Bill
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