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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ATI VGAWonder incorrectly detects monitor
Message-ID: <3839.2620dedb@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 90 23:13:31 GMT
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In article <1233@fs1.ee.ubc.ca>, rpostgat@fs1.ee.ubc.ca (Richard G. Postgate)
writes: 
>     I just bought an ATI VGAWonder video card, and I cannot get it to 
> believe that I have an analog multisync (monochrome; a TVM MG-11)
> monitor attached to it.  It always autodetects the monitor as an EGA (as
> the manual says it will do when it detects a multisync digital monitor).
> The monitor is definitely in analog mode, and plugged into the 15 pin
> connector on the ATI card.  Does anyone know how the ATI card tries to
> detect an analog multisync monitor?  Is there any way to override the
> monitor type it selects, perhaps with a small utility program (the ATI
> utilities won't let you do this)?

Have you tried turning the monitor on before turning on the computer?  I heard
that this has solved the problem for some people.

-Sanjay Aiyagari (HD7X@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)