Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!jarthur!ucivax!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucsd!ogicse!plains!wilken From: wilken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Am I stuck with 640x480? Message-ID: <7291@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 21 Dec 90 20:06:36 GMT References: Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 27 In article sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (sophist) writes: >Sometime early this year, thinking (wrongly) that I would never want >greater resolution and going for low price, I bought a Samtron SC - 43IV >standard VGA monitor. I've had very good luck with this monitor. It >looks very nice (using a Paradise Basic VGA). > >Now I'm wondering if its possible to use this monitor with higher >resolution cards? What's stopping me? Will the monitor simply not >produce higher resolutions? Could I damage the monitor? Will it >flicker? It is not (I don't think) a multisync. Well, the particular model you mention does not ring a bell, but since you tell us that it is a "standard" VGA monitor, then yes, you are limited to using it with non-super VGA cards. You need a multisync monitor to go to 800X600 or 1024X768. What happens is that the video card sends out a signal that tells the monitor to slow its scan rate so that it can display more pixels. Standard VGA monitors wont know how to interpret this and will just try to go ahead and display the picture anyway. It will result in you seeing a lot of garbage on your screen. Scott -- Internet: wilken@plains.nodak.edu UUCP: ..!uunet!plains!wilken Bitnet: WILKEN@PLAINS