thanks for your quick reply grantspain

i am using soft 15 with nvidia gforce 5200 and nvidia drivers only have 15kHz installed
res set to 600 x 480
polo 25" serial# 40029
twisted the sync wires together to make composit should I rewire and use both sync wires
to there own spot on monitor.

checked VGA cable pinouts a couple of times check finger board there is continuity to the monitor
no video amplifer just using 1 volt video signals
if there is anyymore info needed please just ask
thanks in advance