Recent content by spoolin01

Is there any reason to consider where the panel for a TV is sourced? Are they all equivalent, or at least good, above 32" in size? If it's important to know, are there any sites that aggregate this information, or any easy way to find this out?

It's looking like the 3450 is indeed the best I could consider. I've only got a 300W power supply, and have never swapped a power supply. My experience with mods runs to drive/disk/card swaps and additions - I guess it looks like the PS is just more cable swapping than those others, but for...

I've been poking around some more for good AGP cards and see the Radeon 3650/4650/4670 recommended, also the GeForce 7800GS but that seems to be an older card. Am I shooting too high with those cards? The 3450 should be a bit cheaper I guess... Also, in some specs (GeForce 6200) I see...

Point taken about the age of the product. You'd think a problem so basic - the card was spec'd for 1920x1080 - would be more prominent in the knowledge base by now... Works fine via VGA, so off to find another card. Would you offer some advice on what series or specs to look for? Not a...

Thanks, that helps focus the issue. I was just about to try that to see if I that would help distinguish a monitor/cable problem from a video card problem. I spent several hours with Nvidia chat support this afternoon - even asked them if they thought VGA would be a useful troubleshooting...

I just got a 2nd hand NEC monitor and am trying to set it up on my XP machine with the Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 card. I updated the card driver and downloaded the .inf file from the NEC site (don't know if that matters...). The highest res that shows on either the XP or Nvidia control panels...