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Please help me! Annoying monitor problem!

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From: Benjamin Miner
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:00
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I consider myself to be a fairly educated person when it comes to 
computers (I assembled the one I am useing right myself), but I am stuck 
on this monitor/video card problem I am experiencing.  Allow me to give 
you a little background.  Up until now, I was useing a 14 inch maxnovox 
at 640x480.  A week ago, I bought a "re-conditioned" 15 inch Dell 
trinitron.  It turns out actually, that it's a Sony labeled as a Dell.  

	My computer has Kelvin Orchid 64 video card in it, which is one 
that is directly supported by windows 95.  However, I can't find my 
monitor on the Windows 95 list.  I have tried all the monitors, and I 
still have the same problem.  The problem is that, in 800 x 600 
resolution (it can go up to 1024 x 768) the inch on the left and the 
right is compacted about 40-50%.  Whatever is in that space is 
skinnier.  In 640 x 480, and in 1024 x 768, it is fine.  In Dos, when I 
load with a boot disk, the screen is ONLY compacted on the inch on 
the right side. When I load windows in safe mode (standard vga 640 x 480) 
the screen is also fine.  It ONLY seems to happen at 800 x 600, which 
also happens to be the resolution I want to run Windows 95 at.

	My question is... Does this sound like a monitor problem or a 
Video card problem?  I have tested the monitor on different computers, 
and it exibits the same symptomes every time.  Any help anybody could 
offer me would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
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From: Benjamin Miner <warlord@cowland.com>
Subject: Please help me! Annoying monitor problem!
Date: 1996/06/21
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