salamontagne
Experienced Member
Ive been experianceing some strange issues with an old system I'm building. Sometimes on poweron
the display will be in black and white, and sometimes it will be in color. Sometimes a soft reset will
get it in color, sometimes a hard reboot, sometimes re-attaching the cable does it.
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcf...ing-monitor-correctly&highlight=trident+color
The above post mentioned a prolbem with old VGA vards and newer monitors, but this cards from '94
(not very old in the ISA dept, IIRC) and the monitor is a Sun 21" CRT. Not sure of the age, but i can't
see it as being any older then 2000 or so. The motherboard has an Opti chipset and appears to be a downgraded VLB board with a Amd 486dx2 and 4MB of memory. I did have a slight issue with grounding out
(case its in uses non-standard height standoffs) and i managed to isolate it.
Could this be the same problem as above? I really hope not; my skill at soldering something up as mentioned in the post is something i'm too terrified to attempt :blush:
the display will be in black and white, and sometimes it will be in color. Sometimes a soft reset will
get it in color, sometimes a hard reboot, sometimes re-attaching the cable does it.
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcf...ing-monitor-correctly&highlight=trident+color
The above post mentioned a prolbem with old VGA vards and newer monitors, but this cards from '94
(not very old in the ISA dept, IIRC) and the monitor is a Sun 21" CRT. Not sure of the age, but i can't
see it as being any older then 2000 or so. The motherboard has an Opti chipset and appears to be a downgraded VLB board with a Amd 486dx2 and 4MB of memory. I did have a slight issue with grounding out
(case its in uses non-standard height standoffs) and i managed to isolate it.
Could this be the same problem as above? I really hope not; my skill at soldering something up as mentioned in the post is something i'm too terrified to attempt :blush: