Compaq Monitors...

[B14speedfreak]

Hi All,

I have been having issues with this Monitor. Essentially I bought this second user system from my work, quite a good spec for the price, which is for a friend. Unfortunatly there was no VDU included.

Anyway my friend managed to source an old Compaq 470 monitor, its about 14inch, runs between 50 - 60 mhz. It was built in 1993! (bit of an antique really)...

The system uses XP Pro with the latest updates applied, and works fine with a 17" CTX monitor, it uses an on board graphics card, not sure what type, but it has the latest drivers intstalled. However it doesn't work with this Compaq monitor. I either get split screens, or a rediciously low resulation making the PC unusable.

Unfortunately Compaq are now owned by HP, and on the support site, the drivers don't appear to go back that far. I have had a search of the net, but carn't just find any drivers that will work.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Thanks,



B14... aka... Marky Mark... the frozen monkey in the server room...

 

[kmcferrin]

A 14" monitor from 1993 isn't likely to support a resolution higher than 640x480, and yes, that will make Windows XP mostly unusable. This monitor pre-dates Windows XP by 8-9 years, and plug and play by at least five years. The odds of there being anything to make it work with Windows XP are remote at best.

 

[B14speedfreak]

Thanks for that, thought it would be the case.

Thanks,



B14... aka... Marky Mark... the frozen monkey in the server room...