24" display, WUXGA

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24" display, WUXGA

I am thinking of buying a The Dell™ UltraSharp™ 2407WFP monitor.
It says my computer must support WUXGA resolution (1920x1200). Will my power mac G4 do that?

Power Mac G4, Imac G5, powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 10, 2006 7:05 AM

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Aug 10, 2006 7:35 AM in response to civitas

It depends on the video card. New ones will, old ones won't, and some (e.g. Nvidia Geforce MX 2) need firmware updates to do it. What model G4 do you have? What is the graphics card? Run System Profiler to see.

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Aug 10, 2006 8:11 AM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

I have a Powermac G4 1.25ghz.

This is what system profiler says under graphics:

Chipset Model: ATY,RV250
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 64 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4966
Revision ID: 0x0001
ROM Revision: 113-99702-131

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Aug 10, 2006 8:17 AM in response to civitas

That would be the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
Resolution (Digital): 1920x1200, Resolution (Analog): 1600x1200

So it should work if you don't use VGA.

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Aug 10, 2006 8:23 AM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

Sorry for the silly question, but can I use DVI with my machine?

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Aug 10, 2006 8:46 AM in response to civitas

Yes. The ATI Radeon 9000 Pro has an ADC and a DVI port. For two DVI displays you can put an ADC to DVI adapter on the ADC port.
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Aug 10, 2006 8:48 AM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

Great, thanks for all the prompt info.

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