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Title: Hooking up old AVGA card to standard monitor for installing windows..won't work?
Post by: electricd on March 01, 2006, 11:23:10 am

Hello,

I have one of the older ArcadeVGA cards (the one with 2 VGA ports and 1 S-Video).  Anway, I swapped out my motherboard, process, RAM in preparation of upgrading from .85 to .103.  Anyway, I have tried hooking up my Gateway EV500 monitor up to both ports on the card, and both give me "Out of Frequency".  Says  the HF is at 15.6Khz on both ports (monitor pops up a display saying its at 15.6Khz and that the monitor supports 30-70 HF.)  I know I was able to use a normal monitor in the past to install Windows.  Am I doing something wrong?  I have emailed Andy but thought I would try here as well.

ED7

Title: Re: Hooking up old AVGA card to standard monitor for installing windows..won't work?
Post by: RetroACTIVE on March 01, 2006, 01:01:50 pm

The AVGA card can only generate 15.6KHz HF so the PC monitor won't/should not work.  :(  I'm not sure the AVGA can be configured any other way, it's basically the thing that makes it compatible with arcade monitors.

I used a regular VGA card and PC monitor when I installed windows the first time... then replaced it w/AVGA and connected it to my arcade monitor.

Hope this helps
Jim

Title: Re: Hooking up old AVGA card to standard monitor for installing windows..won't w
Post by: electricd on March 01, 2006, 01:13:53 pm

Yea I gave up and bought a cheap AGP card and am installing windows now :)