Hello, All!
I have both a problem, and a warning.
I have a 486-66 m-board from 1992, a STB VLB video card, and I
use DR-Dos v 6.02. (with no problems since 1987.)
I also have an IBM PS2/50, also with no problems.
I recently bought a "brand-new" Energy-Star NEC 14 inch Classic
Monitor, as my other monitors were slowly dying-out.
For months I thought that I was a lot-more-blind than I was;
since I couldn't get the darn monitor to display the colors
brightly, no matter how I fiddled with the "digital-controls".
Then I brought it to the "official" NEC repair facility.
The nice techs there tested every single function on it, and
they couldn't understand it.. for 3 weeks..
Until I mentioned that I don't use Windows.
Ah Hah!
They finally told me that the monitor was "A Plug and Play" unit,
designed <specifically> to <automatically> pick-up the video-
signals from Windows 95 and 98.
I have read on the list of <modems> like this; but, I have never
heard of such an incredible thing before; How can a <monitor>
"bypass" the video-card(s) signals and bios?
I'm at a total loss as to what to do.
I have 3 questions:
1. Is there some way to "manually-over-ride" this insanity?
2. What are my options at this point? (It's still under warranty.)
3. Is this kind of deliberate sale, design, and use, even Legal?
Thanks, Gregory; (ripping-out what little hair he has left.)
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