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rribaric
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I have an old 9500 I use as my OS8/OS9 machine. It's upgraded with a G3 card and ATI graphics card that would drive my 17" monitor at 1600x1200.
That is, it did until the monitor literally melted down. (mmmm... toasted monitor...)
I was able to borrow two older replacement monitors. Neither is probably capable of 1600x1200, so I need to set a lower resolution. Simple, right?
Well, if I boot up with extentions on, it appears to try to kick into 1600x1200, making the display unreadable. I can boot with extentions off, which puts me into 640x480, but then I can't open the control panel to change the resolution.
How do I solve this catch-22?
I tried removing the Monitors preferences file, and the ATI Displays preferences file. But when I restart with extentions on, the display is okay (640x480) until the extentions icons start to appear, and then the display flips back into some unusable resolution. Strangely, when this happens, even rebooting extentions off gives an unusable resolution from the very start. Only zapping the PRAM lets me boot into 640x480 with extentions off.
I'd be happy to operate in 640x480, as long as I can do it with extentions on. But I can't get even that to work.
I'd try a high-res monitor, but I don't have one I can borrow. And I get the same results with either of the lo-res replacement monitors, so I don't think that they are the problem.
Can anybody PLEASE tell me what's going on???
That is, it did until the monitor literally melted down. (mmmm... toasted monitor...)
I was able to borrow two older replacement monitors. Neither is probably capable of 1600x1200, so I need to set a lower resolution. Simple, right?
Well, if I boot up with extentions on, it appears to try to kick into 1600x1200, making the display unreadable. I can boot with extentions off, which puts me into 640x480, but then I can't open the control panel to change the resolution.
How do I solve this catch-22?
I tried removing the Monitors preferences file, and the ATI Displays preferences file. But when I restart with extentions on, the display is okay (640x480) until the extentions icons start to appear, and then the display flips back into some unusable resolution. Strangely, when this happens, even rebooting extentions off gives an unusable resolution from the very start. Only zapping the PRAM lets me boot into 640x480 with extentions off.
I'd be happy to operate in 640x480, as long as I can do it with extentions on. But I can't get even that to work.
I'd try a high-res monitor, but I don't have one I can borrow. And I get the same results with either of the lo-res replacement monitors, so I don't think that they are the problem.
Can anybody PLEASE tell me what's going on???