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Article #207Please help me! Annoying monitor problem!
From: Benjamin Miner
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:00
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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