Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!bbb From: bbb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Hacking a NEC Multisync Message-ID: <1991Apr3.165250.29444@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 3 Apr 91 22:52:50 GMT References: Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 31 In article , et10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edmund E. Tsai) writes: > Here is the problem: > > I have an original NEC multisync monitor, with which I am running a > Trident based card in 800x600 mode. Whenever I switch between 800x600 > mode and text mode (80x25) I have to adjust the v-hold. I called up NEC > and asked them about this, and they told me it is a hardware problem in > the monitor, since the engineers didn't even know about Super VGA back > then. > > SO, I was wondering if anyone has any ideas to fix this. It really > is a pain to keep having to adjust v-hold. > > I was also wondering if it is natural that I have adjust v-size when > switching between any VGA graphics mode and text mode. > > > Thanks for any help! > > Ed I have the exact same problem with my NEC-MS. To mine I attached a 1-meg -or -so ohm pot in series with a switch and connected this across the v-hold pot on the control panel. I then brought the mon up in 640 adjust the original control for hold switched to 800 and turn the switch on and adjust the added pot for hold. (it might be the other way round just expermient). I just brought the switch out under the controll panel and 'taped' it to the top. Now when I switch to 800 i just flick the switch. Though abut tring to get fancy and sense the vert-freq and electronicly switch the vert-hold but this made it nice enough to live with. Good luck