Hello everyone. Whilst rummaging through my vast collection of computer crap I came across a 286 motherboard and suddenly had the urge to make a machine for no real reason...
... so I put it all together and I realized I still had an amber monochrome Zenith monitor lying around - which I assumed was plain ol' CGA - and decided to use it with this haggard system I was creating: 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drives, Seagate ST-157A 44MB IDE hard drive, yadda yadda.
So I turn on the computer and look at the screen, the graphics card configured optimally for a mono CGA monitor. I see text! But for some reason the horizontal is out of sync. While not moving or flickering about, the last 3 or 4 lines that would appear at the bottom of my screen are pushed out of view and they appear at the top of the screen. Adjusting the V. hold on the monitor does nothing to solve this. After some brief researching, I learned the monitor I'm using is TLL.
Now for my questions: what is TLL, exactly? Is it possible to correct this problem? Am I forced to only use a TLL video card if I want to use this monitor, and if so, where can I get one?
It's a perfectly fine monitor and I would like to keep and use it if at all possible.
Thank you.
... so I put it all together and I realized I still had an amber monochrome Zenith monitor lying around - which I assumed was plain ol' CGA - and decided to use it with this haggard system I was creating: 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drives, Seagate ST-157A 44MB IDE hard drive, yadda yadda.
So I turn on the computer and look at the screen, the graphics card configured optimally for a mono CGA monitor. I see text! But for some reason the horizontal is out of sync. While not moving or flickering about, the last 3 or 4 lines that would appear at the bottom of my screen are pushed out of view and they appear at the top of the screen. Adjusting the V. hold on the monitor does nothing to solve this. After some brief researching, I learned the monitor I'm using is TLL.
Now for my questions: what is TLL, exactly? Is it possible to correct this problem? Am I forced to only use a TLL video card if I want to use this monitor, and if so, where can I get one?
It's a perfectly fine monitor and I would like to keep and use it if at all possible.
Thank you.