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Andy <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <080520081044489026%brett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> brett_zell <brett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Hello to all,
>>
>> I've got a G3 Beige OS9.1 and I just bought a flat LCD screen X223W Q
>> (Acer) wich was supposed to be "plug and play", according to the
>> salesman.
>>
>> Its not,
It is. Your machine is simply so ancient that its graphic card cannot
handle that resolution.
Your beige G3 has, by default, a 2MB graphic card. Most modern cards
have 256 times that amount of RAM. It can be upgrade to 4MB of RAM, which
will let you run 1024x768 in 8 bit colors... maybe 16 bit.
There is no way you can run anything approaching 1680x1050 and this is not
the monitor's fault, but simply a function of the extremely limited
graphics
on the Beige G3.
If you had a Blue&White I think you could put a 8500 card in it, which
would
let you run that monitor. However, I don't think there is anything you
can
do for the Beige but get a 15" panel that is no larger than 1024x768. I
don't
recall that any PCI video cards worked in the Beige units since they
relied on
a 'personality' card for their graphics.
A site like lowendmac might have more info though.
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