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Ray
I recently aquired an HP 735/125 workstation with a nice HP A4033A
monitor that I'd like to use with one of my PCs. I hunted down a
VGA-to-RGBhv (5 BNC) cable, set everything up, plugged it all in
(ensuring that all the connections were correct on the back of the
monitor), and turned on my PC. Nothing happened.
After a few minutes, the monitor came out of power save mode, and lit
the power LED green. A flicker of hope emerged, only to be dashed
down quickly by the return to the power saving mode. After various
attempts with different PCs and 4 different video cards ranging from
4MB to 64MB, PCI to AGP, nVidia to ATi, I've still had no luck.
I've been researching other results with this monitor being used on a
PC, and it seems to work fairly straightforwardly. I verified that
the monitor is functional by running it on the HP workstation, and of
course, it works flawlessly. I've tried various .inf files for the
monitor settings in Windows, various resolutions and refresh rates,
all to no avail.
From what I've gathered, this is indeed a multi-sync monitor, I've
read reports of it working with precisely the video card I'm using in
the PC I'm attempting to attach it to, and I know that it can display
both text and graphics modes just fine. The only progress I've made
is that for about 1.5 seconds, it displayed my Windows startup screen,
once and only once in all my tests. It does periodically come out of
the power save mode and sit on for a few seconds, then returns shortly
after. And, sometimes it will cycle back and forth between power save
and on on about a 5 second interval.
If anyone could give me some kind of pointer or direction to go with
this, it would be much appreciated. I'd love to be able to start
using this on my programming box, but obviously I've been fairly
unlucky.
Thanks in advance,
Ray
monitor that I'd like to use with one of my PCs. I hunted down a
VGA-to-RGBhv (5 BNC) cable, set everything up, plugged it all in
(ensuring that all the connections were correct on the back of the
monitor), and turned on my PC. Nothing happened.
After a few minutes, the monitor came out of power save mode, and lit
the power LED green. A flicker of hope emerged, only to be dashed
down quickly by the return to the power saving mode. After various
attempts with different PCs and 4 different video cards ranging from
4MB to 64MB, PCI to AGP, nVidia to ATi, I've still had no luck.
I've been researching other results with this monitor being used on a
PC, and it seems to work fairly straightforwardly. I verified that
the monitor is functional by running it on the HP workstation, and of
course, it works flawlessly. I've tried various .inf files for the
monitor settings in Windows, various resolutions and refresh rates,
all to no avail.
From what I've gathered, this is indeed a multi-sync monitor, I've
read reports of it working with precisely the video card I'm using in
the PC I'm attempting to attach it to, and I know that it can display
both text and graphics modes just fine. The only progress I've made
is that for about 1.5 seconds, it displayed my Windows startup screen,
once and only once in all my tests. It does periodically come out of
the power save mode and sit on for a few seconds, then returns shortly
after. And, sometimes it will cycle back and forth between power save
and on on about a 5 second interval.
If anyone could give me some kind of pointer or direction to go with
this, it would be much appreciated. I'd love to be able to start
using this on my programming box, but obviously I've been fairly
unlucky.
Thanks in advance,
Ray