Unrelated topic kinda

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:35 pm

My GEM LCD (I originally typed "LSD" - yikes!) monitor displays "No Signal" for a few minutes, then goes to "Off". It may be something in the monitor setup itself, that is, the menu that is accessible from the controls on the monitor itself, like the ones to adjust the screen width/height /position (and independent of the card and drivers).

Another simple remedy is to buy a power strip or power station and turn everything off.

rumbush · Post by **rumbush** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:44 am

Gary, you're right. All modern screens store their settings in NVRAM (like any number of other peripheral & mobile devices) which are programmable through some form of on-screen display. The only condition under which a driver would have anything to do with PM modes on a monitor is if some functional part of the software was the ONLY way to program the LCD's NVRAM. If the video adapter is broken/screwy that could certainly cause the aberrant PM behaviour, but otherwise monitors do not "acclimate" to video adapters.

The fact that the thing doesn't display/work correctly in Windows might be a driver issue. Couple that with the strange PM stuff and you've probably got a wonky video adapter. For those of you who don't speak computer-ese, "wonky" is a technical term.

Hope it all works out, WHATEVER the solution may be, Ken!!

ken_swearingen · Post by **ken_swearingen** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:39 am

well the solution for now is to use the onboard video adapter, it works fine ,I thought I would save some ram that it shares by using a AGP card,Ive got 1gig anyway well now 960MB.Thank's for everyone's input.

ojobob2 · Post by **ojobob2** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:30 am

get an iMac - thats my solution

jwlussow · Post by **jwlussow** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:34 am

I second that iMac suggestion........

ojobob2 · Post by **ojobob2** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:38 am

i got mine 6 years ago now.....the little blueberry bubble...still works like new.

jwlussow · Post by **jwlussow** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:06 am

I started with a 512Ke in 1984. Now I have a Dual 2Ghz G5 with 8 GBs RAM (Pro Tools setup), an iBook G4 and an iMac G5. My wife has a flat panel iMac. I am the IT manager of a small engineering company based in Chicago with offices in the Chicago suburbs and Jackson, MS. All PC except our servers (Mac OSX and Red Hat Linux) and me. I use an old Sawtooth at work. Just to keep it on topic - I also love my 4003/s5 I just bought from Jeff Rath.

henny · Post by **henny** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:17 am

I have an older Dual 1.42Ghz G4 "Hero" model, with 2Gb RAM.

2 years old already, but stil a brilliantly-fast computer, running OS 10.3.

Use it for work primarily, use my beater P4 PC for games/net.

jwlussow · Post by **jwlussow** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:25 am

Macs really aren't good gaming machines, in general. I just pre-ordered an ATI X800 XT video card for my G5. I'm hooked on Tiger Woods Golf. It is incredible on my G5s. Cant wait to see it with the XT card.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:59 am

John wrote:

... Macs really aren't good gaming machines, in general ...

Macs were a great platform for Bungie's Marathon series, the predecessors to Halo. Network multiplayer, too!

ojobob2 · Post by **ojobob2** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:00 pm

I tend to view the mac as the Rickenbacker of the computing world - that is, it makes up only a small percentage but is ultimately better.

Family's first mac was an LC, back in 1990 when i was only 5 years old haha. several machines later and we have an imac G5, powerbook G4, ibook G3 (all for graphics buisness)...and i have my blue bubble imac.

Before mac's my family had an Amiga 500

no pc's for me thank you!

ojobob2 · Post by **ojobob2** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:04 pm

Gary dont start me on marathon!!

this could get dangerous

(ps macworld gave away all 3 games free on the cover Cd haha)

jwlussow · Post by **jwlussow** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:05 pm

One of things Iike about this forum and Rickenbackers in general is I feel very at home with people who realize what others don't - Ric's (and Mac's) are just better. It might be impossible to explain to neophytes who have never had the pleasure of really playing a Rickenbacker (or using a Mac) but we know....People here are very similiar to Mac fanatics - and I love it.

ken_swearingen · Post by **ken_swearingen** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:39 pm

John, for one- nice bass you bought from Jeff the color ,condition beautiful-as for mac's I don't know enough about them-its like they say "there's no substitute for knowledge"so I had better educate myself.

thx1955 · Post by **thx1955** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:19 pm

I loved my MAC .... I'd to go back to the simplicity again in a heartbeat.

The first computer I operated, circa 73, an IBM 1130, with 8, yes a whole EIGHT thousand bytes of memory. No keyboard, operands and commands were entered in Hex via a 8x4 32 switch ( 32 bits-8 Bytes, one word ) array. Output was to a similar set of 32 lights. You got to be able to read and write in Hex really well !!!!