[G4] Video Card Upgrade Question

[Philip J Robar]

On May 7, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Preston Peek wrote:

> It just so happens that I have the 226BW. It's set to the proper  
> resolution
> (1680 x 1050) and refresh rates (the refresh is set automatically by  
> the Mac
> at 59.9). Incidentally, these values appear in the Preset Timing  
> Mode chart
> (thanks for the URL), but for a VESA (not Mac) display mode, which  
> may not
> have anything to do with anything, but thought I'd mention it.

Have you gone through the set up process built into the monitor? In  
particular most monitor's have an Auto button that gets things close  
to optimal.

> No distortion, but definitely not as crisp as I believe it should  
> be--lines
> are not always clean, often jagged--some places (solid surfaces)  
> seem to be
> moving in and out of focus, like when a video camera is trying to  
> film a
> window that's giving it competing objects to focus on. In large  
> swaths of
> color (sky, etc.) you can actually see soft, but definite pixilation.
>
> Two more bits of info: I cannot get text to appear cleanly; some  
> jagged
> lines and very blurred, and even black text (like what I'm typing  
> here) has
> a tint to it (red, green, blue). I've seen this kind of thing before  
> when
> the resolution if off, but that's not the case here.
>
> Also, I've had an Acer AL2017 for the last couple of months, and had  
> the
> same kinds of problems, so got rid of it. Could there be something  
> in the G4
> itself that just doesn't like LCD screens?

Have you tried a different cable?

Phil