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Hi everyone,
I'm hoping this is the right group to post this question to.
I just purchased a 20" Sun GDM 20D10 monitor, along with the female 13W3 to
male VGA adapter.
Now the bad news...
After much research online, as well as instruction from the previous
monitor's owner, I'm unable to get this beauty to work on a PC using the
Radeon 9700 Pro (retail) and Windows XP Pro and Millennium (different
machines).
This is what I've done thus far:
Having an extra VGA monitor handy, I've switched back and forth with the Sun
at different resolutions and refresh rates.
Almost all online resources say that I can expect to not be able to see
CMOS, safe-mode, or DOS screens at all. while the previous owner said the
opposite, and he was using an Asus GeForce 4 MX440.
Using the VGA monitor, I set the drivers to standard VGA 1024x768 and
1280x1024 at 60Hz, 70Hz, and 75Hz.
Then I tried the EIZO 9500 drivers at the same resolutions and refresh rates
as above.
According to liebbrandt.com/sunmon/sunmon.html, the monitor should work at
all of these settings.
I noticed that the monitor does power on, and at POST the power indicator
light does stay solid green....for about a half a minute. Then back to
flashing with no image whatsoever.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
The adapter I'm using doesn't seem to have a capacitor in it.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael

macfarlane @ shaw.ca

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:17:43 +0000, M.MacFarlane wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I'm hoping this is the right group to post this question to.
> I just purchased a 20" Sun GDM 20D10 monitor, along with the female 13W3 to
> male VGA adapter.

> Using the VGA monitor, I set the drivers to standard VGA 1024x768 and
> 1280x1024 at 60Hz, 70Hz, and 75Hz.
> Then I tried the EIZO 9500 drivers at the same resolutions and refresh rates
> as above.
> According to liebbrandt.com/sunmon/sunmon.html, the monitor should work at
> all of these settings.
> I noticed that the monitor does power on, and at POST the power indicator
> light does stay solid green....for about a half a minute. Then back to

VGA signals the "sync" lines on separate lines, Sun does sync on the green
signal. You'll need a sync-on-green adapter or a videocard which can
provide it (I know some matrox cards can do it if you flash a custom bios
in them). Google for "radeon sync on green"...

Kj

In article <bEEtb.401715$6C4.156119@pd7tw1no>,
"M.MacFarlane" <macfarlaneNO@SPAMshaw.ca> writes:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm hoping this is the right group to post this question to.
> I just purchased a 20" Sun GDM 20D10 monitor, along with the female 13W3 to
> male VGA adapter.

Suspect the adaptor. I dont have exactly the same Sun monitor - I have
a 20?20 but it works fine with a PC CMOS and all. I have 2 or 3
adaptors that DIDN't work. I stumbled across deepspacecables.com
on eBay and "wallah" as they say.
In your case it may be different:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=36 68
says in part:

NOTE - If you will be using a PC with windows the monitor will not display
in the following modes:
* BIOS setup
* boot-up
* DOS mode / Sea-prompt (DOS screens inside windows will show)
* Windows blue-screen-of-death

This is normal and can't be avoided.. We recommend you keep a
cheap spare monitor (such as an old VGA/SVGA monitor with
an attached HD15 cable) on hand to view these modes when necessary.

Klaasjan Brand wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:17:43 +0000, M.MacFarlane wrote:
>
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>I'm hoping this is the right group to post this question to.
>>I just purchased a 20" Sun GDM 20D10 monitor, along with the female 13W3 to
>>male VGA adapter.
>
>
>>Using the VGA monitor, I set the drivers to standard VGA 1024x768 and
>>1280x1024 at 60Hz, 70Hz, and 75Hz.
>>Then I tried the EIZO 9500 drivers at the same resolutions and refresh rates
>>as above.
>>According to liebbrandt.com/sunmon/sunmon.html, the monitor should work at
>>all of these settings.
>>I noticed that the monitor does power on, and at POST the power indicator
>>light does stay solid green....for about a half a minute. Then back to
>
>
> VGA signals the "sync" lines on separate lines, Sun does sync on the green
> signal. You'll need a sync-on-green adapter or a videocard which can
> provide it (I know some matrox cards can do it if you flash a custom bios
> in them). Google for "radeon sync on green"...
>
> Kj
>

Sun does NOT sync on green, AFAIK. I think DEC does.

You want combined (V+H) sync. Most PC cards put out separate sync.

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