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The Gateway 17" CRT monitor on my 1994 P5-90 desktop running Win95a
is getting a little flaky. The desktop occasionally wiggles and shakes right and left. The video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video with STB Win 95. Should there be any problem replacing it with an Acer 19" wide panel LCD monitor with a standard VGA connector? Thanks! Scott |
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:23:17 -0600, Bozena wrote:
video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video Does this Video card have the capabilities of powering a 17 or 19 inch wide screen monitor - Will it produce the resolution of 1440x900 or 1680x1050 would be my question... JR the postman |
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Postman Delivers wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:23:17 -0600, Bozena wrote: video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video Does this Video card have the capabilities of powering a 17 or 19 inch wide screen monitor - Will it produce the resolution of 1440x900 or 1680x1050 would be my question... JR the postman The STB Powergraph 64 is a very old PCI card with (IIRC) an S3 graphics chip. S3 stopped making drivers for their chips long ago, even before Windows XP. The odds of the card handling any sort of wide resolution are zero. No doubt in my mind. Any PCI card that would install properly in an ancient Gateway system would also be pretty unlikely to support one of the resolutions OR (even more likely) not even have Windows 9x drivers. As nice as a new wide screen monitor may seem, I recommend that the OP shop for a 17" LCD (maybe even a 15"?) with the old-time 4:3 aspect ratio and an operating resolution of either 1024x768 or 1280x1024. Used 17" LCD screens in good condition sell for under $100, maybe half that if used. The local craigslist is often a good source. Or it's time to replace both failing monitor and trusty Gateway that has served well for 13 or 14 years... Ben Myers |
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On Nov 26, 8:23*pm, "Bozena" wrote:
The Gateway 17" CRT monitor on my 1994 P5-90 desktop running Win95a is getting a little flaky. *The desktop occasionally wiggles and shakes right and left. The video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video with STB Win 95. Should there be any problem replacing it with an Acer 19" wide panel LCD monitor with a standard VGA connector? Thanks! Scott Both "the Postman Delivers and Ben Myers are very knowledgeable individuals and I've learned much from their posts. Another option would be to search your local Craigslist to see if you could get a 19'' or 17" CRT monitor cheap or free and ask people you know if they have one collecting dust somewhere. I've picked numerous 17' CRT monitors which I've donated to a nonprofit group and have a couple of gathering dust that I haven't donated yet. You may want to consider updating your video card, both www.geeks.com and www.pacificgeek.com handle pci video cards. Even your 1994 Gateway has served you well you want to retire it soon. I've seen PCs that have a Pentium 3 866mHz processor and monitor on Craigslist for $70. My youngest son is still using our 1998 Gateway G-400, it has been upgraded many times and I'm just to cheap to replace it. It still works fine for what he is using it for. |
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Postman Delivers wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:23:17 -0600, Bozena wrote: video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video Does this Video card have the capabilities of powering a 17 or 19 inch wide screen monitor - Will it produce the resolution of 1440x900 or 1680x1050 would be my question... JR the postman JR, Wow, I checked, and I can adjust the resolution up to 1600 x 1200 with this older video card! Scott |
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Wettlesheim wrote: On Nov 26, 8:23 pm, "Bozena" wrote: The Gateway 17" CRT monitor on my 1994 P5-90 desktop running Win95a is getting a little flaky. The desktop occasionally wiggles and shakes right and left. The video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video with STB Win 95. Should there be any problem replacing it with an Acer 19" wide panel LCD monitor with a standard VGA connector? Thanks! Scott Both "the Postman Delivers and Ben Myers are very knowledgeable individuals and I've learned much from their posts. Another option would be to search your local Craigslist to see if you could get a 19'' or 17" CRT monitor cheap or free and ask people you know if they have one collecting dust somewhere. I've picked numerous 17' CRT monitors which I've donated to a nonprofit group and have a couple of gathering dust that I haven't donated yet. You may want to consider updating your video card, both www.geeks.com and www.pacificgeek.com handle pci video cards. Even your 1994 Gateway has served you well you want to retire it soon. I've seen PCs that have a Pentium 3 866mHz processor and monitor on Craigslist for $70. My youngest son is still using our 1998 Gateway G-400, it has been upgraded many times and I'm just to cheap to replace it. It still works fine for what he is using it for. Wettlesheim, Well, I do have another 17" CRT on a little used computer, which I could substitute. And, I have a 15" rectangular LCD. I also have several Gateway E-3200 corporate desktops that I got from eBay for under $50 ea, and I'm using those elsewhere in the house (running Win 98). My reason for keeping the Win95 and Win98 machines is that they have no problem printing from a 1980's DOS program that I use for invoices/inventory on my home-based health and wellness business. If you know of a way I could print invoices from a DOS program using Win XP, I'd love to upgrade Fortunately, I have a Win XP Pro desktop with an aging (6-year old) 19" LCD Gateway monitor, which should handle my new Acer 19" wide panel LCD I bought with no problem. I bought the Acer 19" LCD for $99.00 (with free shipping). What's your opinion about this monitor...as far as image and quality? Thanks again! Scott |
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Ben Myers wrote: Postman Delivers wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:23:17 -0600, Bozena wrote: video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video Does this Video card have the capabilities of powering a 17 or 19 inch wide screen monitor - Will it produce the resolution of 1440x900 or 1680x1050 would be my question... JR the postman The STB Powergraph 64 is a very old PCI card with (IIRC) an S3 graphics chip. S3 stopped making drivers for their chips long ago, even before Windows XP. The odds of the card handling any sort of wide resolution are zero. No doubt in my mind. Any PCI card that would install properly in an ancient Gateway system would also be pretty unlikely to support one of the resolutions OR (even more likely) not even have Windows 9x drivers. As nice as a new wide screen monitor may seem, I recommend that the OP shop for a 17" LCD (maybe even a 15"?) with the old-time 4:3 aspect ratio and an operating resolution of either 1024x768 or 1280x1024. Used 17" LCD screens in good condition sell for under $100, maybe half that if used. The local craigslist is often a good source. Or it's time to replace both failing monitor and trusty Gateway that has served well for 13 or 14 years... Ben Myers Ben, Yes, I'm sure when this video card was made (mid 1990's), there were no wide screen LCD monitors in production Scott |
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Scott wrote:
Wettlesheim wrote: On Nov 26, 8:23 pm, "Bozena" wrote: The Gateway 17" CRT monitor on my 1994 P5-90 desktop running Win95a is getting a little flaky. The desktop occasionally wiggles and shakes right and left. The video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video with STB Win 95. Should there be any problem replacing it with an Acer 19" wide panel LCD monitor with a standard VGA connector? Thanks! Scott Both "the Postman Delivers and Ben Myers are very knowledgeable individuals and I've learned much from their posts. Another option would be to search your local Craigslist to see if you could get a 19'' or 17" CRT monitor cheap or free and ask people you know if they have one collecting dust somewhere. I've picked numerous 17' CRT monitors which I've donated to a nonprofit group and have a couple of gathering dust that I haven't donated yet. You may want to consider updating your video card, both www.geeks.com and www.pacificgeek.com handle pci video cards. Even your 1994 Gateway has served you well you want to retire it soon. I've seen PCs that have a Pentium 3 866mHz processor and monitor on Craigslist for $70. My youngest son is still using our 1998 Gateway G-400, it has been upgraded many times and I'm just to cheap to replace it. It still works fine for what he is using it for. Wettlesheim, Well, I do have another 17" CRT on a little used computer, which I could substitute. And, I have a 15" rectangular LCD. I also have several Gateway E-3200 corporate desktops that I got from eBay for under $50 ea, and I'm using those elsewhere in the house (running Win 98). My reason for keeping the Win95 and Win98 machines is that they have no problem printing from a 1980's DOS program that I use for invoices/inventory on my home-based health and wellness business. If you know of a way I could print invoices from a DOS program using Win XP, I'd love to upgrade Fortunately, I have a Win XP Pro desktop with an aging (6-year old) 19" LCD Gateway monitor, which should handle my new Acer 19" wide panel LCD I bought with no problem. I bought the Acer 19" LCD for $99.00 (with free shipping). What's your opinion about this monitor...as far as image and quality? Thanks again! Scott Scott, Acer is not bad as far as monitor quality goes. Not absolutely top-drawer, but still pretty good. As for printing from a DOS-based program under XP, I suggest giving it a trial, at minimum. I had a CHEAP client (company making lots of money, and unwilling to spend of computers) to whom I sold a system with the LAST motherboard chipset for which Windows 98 (hence also 95) support exists. I delivered a 512MB (max for 98) Pentium 4 Dell system all set up with a legit copy of Windows 98 and perfectly capable of running the old old old custom DOS package used to run their business. They did not want to spend money for my time to figure out how to get them out of their own mess, so I no longer do business with them. Don't get yourself into a bind long term running really old hardware to support a really old operating system. XP can run DOS commands and programs out of the CMD box, and there are some customizations you can do to make the CMD box work OK. You can also use NET USE commands to associate any printer anywhere on your network with the DOS-ish environment. But you will have to invest time to research what needs to be done and some more time for trial and error... Ben Myers |
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Hi!
I bought the Acer 19" LCD for $99.00 (with free shipping). What's your opinion about this monitor...as far as image and quality? I have a couple of late model Acer flat panels, the newest being a sixteen (!!!) inch wide screen. (It's very strange to look at, but it fits the application I had in mind.) http://greyghost.mooo.com/evod500sff.jpg (619x747, 93KB) I've been pleased with all of them, although one of the seventeen inchers seems to have a very slightly uneven backlight when cold. It goes away when warmed up and has been in use for a year now, so I suspect it's just "manufacturing variance". None of them have had any obvious bad pixels that I could see. I'm not sure your S3 video will run a widescreen monitor at the proper resolution, but it's worth a try. S3 had some pretty good products "back in the day" and one never knows, especially if yours "listens" to the information almost all modern monitors provide about themselves. The computer pictured above has a 2001-era nVidia AGP card in it (using the XP built-in drivers) and seems to have no problem driving the Acer widescreen at the correct resolution. William |
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"Wettlesheim" wrote in message ... On Nov 26, 8:23 pm, "Bozena" wrote: The Gateway 17" CRT monitor on my 1994 P5-90 desktop running Win95a is getting a little flaky. The desktop occasionally wiggles and shakes right and left. The video card is an STB Powergraph 64 Video with STB Win 95. Should there be any problem replacing it with an Acer 19" wide panel LCD monitor with a standard VGA connector? Thanks! Scott Both "the Postman Delivers and Ben Myers are very knowledgeable individuals and I've learned much from their posts. Another option would be to search your local Craigslist to see if you could get a 19'' or 17" CRT monitor cheap or free and ask people you know if they have one collecting dust somewhere. I've picked numerous 17' CRT monitors which I've donated to a nonprofit group and have a couple of gathering dust that I haven't donated yet. You may want to consider updating your video card, both www.geeks.com and www.pacificgeek.com handle pci video cards. Even your 1994 Gateway has served you well you want to retire it soon. I've seen PCs that have a Pentium 3 866mHz processor and monitor on Craigslist for $70. My youngest son is still using our 1998 Gateway G-400, it has been upgraded many times and I'm just to cheap to replace it. It still works fine for what he is using it for. On the Craig's List note, I'm selling off some older hardware there and happen to have several Old CRTs. If your In the St. Louis / St. Charles, Missouri area contact me and perhaps we can work something out. |
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