[Novalug] incredibly stupid monitor

Dan Arico dan_arico@aricosystems.com
Mon May 12 16:31:45 EDT 2008


On Monday 12 May 2008 02:24:08 pm Beartooth wrote:
>  	My 19" Acer 1280x1024 was dead yesterday morning when I
> got to my desk. The last Acer did that to me.
>
>  	I went to the shop for a replacement. The lady told me
> older computers often won't support wide screens -- anything over
> 1280. (I normally run at least three behind a KVM switch.)

To be accurate, it's not the computer, but the graphics card. The problem with 
changing the graphics card is the AGP connector appears to be vanishing, as 
well.

Dan Arico

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One OS to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them,
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