Multiple Scan 15AV

I have a Apple Multiple Scan 15AV monitor. I have a Compaq Deskpro 6000/6200 with a Matrox Millenium II PCI graphics card installed. When I tried to hook up the Multiple Scan 15AV monitor to the Mac connector I got no picture after the PC booted. Do I need an adapter to make this work correctly? Or do I just need to adjust the brightness &/or contrast settings? I know the monitor was getting power because it went in power saving mode. Despite not getting a picture the Windows 2000 welcome sound & beeps played through the monitor's speakers fine.

refurbished 17 iMac G5 1.8 GHz & refurbished 12 PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 512 & 768 MBs of RAM

Posted on Apr 10, 2007 8:47 AM

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Apr 12, 2007 6:27 PM in response to Craigwd_2000

If it only allows you to specify one, that would be the Vertical Refresh rate -- the numbers between 60 Hz and 75 Hz for this monitor, extending up to a bit over 100 Hz for some monitors. It is the number of times the entire screen will be redrawn in one second.

We seldom enter the Horizontal refresh rate (rate at which each row of dots is drawn). It matters, but we do not usually type it in. Also, its units are 1000 times higher -- KiloHertz rather than Hertz. One Hertz is one oscillation per second.

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Apr 12, 2007 6:52 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Actually when I installed Linux on my PC I had to manually enter both the horizontal & vertical refresh rates because I bought my monitor locally & it's not listed in XFree86's monitor database.

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Apr 16, 2007 12:30 PM in response to Craigwd_2000

Update: Even after configuring my monitors settings manually with the Matrox Wizard it still wasn't enough to get it work with my Apple Multiple Scan 15AV monitor. Therefore I'm going to email Matrox's tech support to see if they can help me fix the problem/issue.

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