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From: dlow@pollux.HP.COM (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: My VGA Monitor
Message-ID: <5870017@pollux.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 91 17:02:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan3.162012.13543@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: HP Lovecraft Division
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>(Cheng Yang) 
>I have a 14" analog color monitor which is able to have 1024x768 graphics and
>I have some problem with that.  Usually when I boot up my system or change
>display mode from graphic mode to text mode, the display of that monitor 
>will be unstable for 10-20 seconds. The charactors displayed will be waving/
>vibrating a little bit.  The computer dealer said that that situation is
>normal, since that monitor was trying to lock its SCANNING FREQUENCY at that
>time.  

Your dealer is lying to you or is very incompetent. The lock time should
be less than a second. Your monitor is defective.

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP CPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com