[Novalug] incredibly stupid monitor

Ed James edjames@greenbelt.com
Mon May 12 17:07:19 EDT 2008


Erm, okay, I didn't say anything about anything getting fried either,
so I'm really not sure why ya brought it up.
Ed James

Quoting Beartooth <karhunhammas@Lserv.com>:

> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ed James wrote:
>
>> My gut tells me the lady doesn't know beans.  Of course, I could   
>> easily be wrong.  I doubt the age of the computer matters, but that  
>>  the video driver and type of video card DO matter.  Now, if your   
>> vid chipset is part of the mobo, then that might well be a problem,  
>>  but I'm still behind the tech curve on this.  Anyone here running   
>> like a P-III that supports the wide screen monitors, and did you   
>> need to choose wisely your vid card?
>
> 	First off, she never said anything would get fried (nor did I); only
> that the new monitors wouldn't work with older PCs. And she did mention
> some sort of card; what I know of electronic cards would go in a gnat's
> eye.




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