Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Using SVGA Modes on VGA Monitor
Message-ID: <5768@bwdls58.bnr.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 91 16:00:14 GMT
References: <27113@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Sender: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca
Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
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In article <27113@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
<I have a Princeton PSC-28 VGA color monitor (fixed frequency).  I also
<have a Paradise 16/Plus 256K card.  Now, the card will go as high as
<640x400x256 colors and the monitor can handle this mode just fine.

Actually, your card can also do 800x600 in 16 colors.  If your monitor can
also handle this mode, then you should have no problem keeping the monitor 
and upgrading to an ET4000 (below).  The number of colors is not important;
the number of pixels is what counts.
	
<Now, I can't afford to switch my monitor AND my card, so what I would
<like to do is upgrade my video card to something like an ET4000 1MB
<card.  I know that I my monitor will not exceed 640x480, but will I
<be able to do 640x480x256 colors?  Then LATER I can get a new monitor.
<
<Brian


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