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dholcombe:

So I got to thinking and remembered there are many Athlon 2800's. Which do you have? There are 2 different Athlon XP 2800+ and at least one Athlon 64 2800+ and an Athlon XP-M 2800+ for starters.

bkenobi:

If he had a dual processor, I think he would have mentioned it.   :dunno

As for the AVGA vs soft15k, they aren't exactly the same.  If you use an AVGA then you can have the monitor turn on at startup.  If you do that with soft15k, won't that potentially damage the monitor?  If so, how do you turn on the monitor once past post?  I ask because I have a monitor that I'd like to use if I could figure soft15k out!

Gray_Area:


--- Quote from: bkenobi on November 07, 2011, 07:18:24 pm ---If he had a dual processor, I think he would have mentioned it.   :dunno

As for the AVGA vs soft15k, they aren't exactly the same.  If you use an AVGA then you can have the monitor turn on at startup.  If you do that with soft15k, won't that potentially damage the monitor?  If so, how do you turn on the monitor once past post?  I ask because I have a monitor that I'd like to use if I could figure soft15k out!

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No. The monitor just won't sync to it

Easy. (SailorSat suggested) Using a 'dummy' pci card and selecting that as default display in the bios....or doing the same with onboard video if the machine has it.....will shunt all video before OS load to there. Make sure to set OS displays in the reverse.

Nephasth:


--- Quote from: bkenobi on November 07, 2011, 07:18:24 pm ---If so, how do you turn on the monitor once past post?  I ask because I have a monitor that I'd like to use if I could figure soft15k out!

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If you've got your arcade monitor connected to a smart strip that your computer controls, your monitor will still be warming up while your computer posts and you'll never see the image out of sync. My arcade monitors are usually warmed up and displaying by the time the Windows loading screen just starts. As far as figuring soft15khz out, the hardest part is figuring out if your video card/onboard video will work with it. I couldn't find an exact match for the card I was using, but I did find one pretty close (there is a foreign website with pics of tons of different cards that work with soft15khz), so I took a chance and it worked. Just downloaded and installed the drivers (after installing quickres and setting it to an acceptable resolution for the arcade monitor), everything worked out fine. Pretty easy.

bkenobi:

It's actually not an arcade monitor.  I have one of those broadcast sets that are in a cube shaped cabinet designed for stacking.  I bought it cause it was cheap and local thinking I might have a use for it at some point, but have only played around with it for a couple hours.  I only had it plugged in long enough to verify that it would display an image.  Unfortunately, I failed in that regard as I was not able to get any signal out of the video card in a format that worked on the set.  It has a VGA shaped adapter that I was trying to interface through, but the adapter I was using at the time didn't sync.  I thought about using soft15k but was afraid of damaging things.  It sounds like the "damage" that I read about was a bit exaggerated, then...

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