Ancient Sony GDM-1950 monitor

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fetchitfido

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Where can I get a cheep video card to enable this beast to work with my PC? It's a 19" 100lb sync on green model. I found a couple of places that have gone out of business that used to make the sync on green cards this needs, but the one place I can find wants $100 for an 8mb PCI (not PCI express) card and that seems rather riduclious. I currently have a 128mb MSI Radeon 9200SE AGP that was about $80 and there is no way I am paying more for less. The monitor came with the D-Sub to BNC adapter cable but the sync on green is a pain. I've also seen a few fairly simple looking schematics for making a snyc on green adapter but the pin configureation and spare D-sub ends seem to be hard to get. I managed to get this to the second floor of my house and if it has to go, it'll go out the window because going downstairs with 100lbs is not happening. Any Idea's? I just want a second monitor to show game walkthroughs while I'm in a game.
 
I think I've seen the site before, unfortunatly for me all I've gotten is the first page. All the links seem to have been modified/moved and all I get is "404 Not Found". I think they need a new webmaster.
 
if i were you i would definately consider looking on ebay for cards such as those listed on that site, i managed to get an old voodoo 3 for playing old games on there a while ago.
 
Ebay seems to have 2, 1 from HP that looks about as sketchy as a $7 bill and another one that seems over priced for an AGP1/2X card. I'll try getting a crappy PCI card and maby find all the pin out stuff to make an adapter. The sony refreshes at 60Hz and I would think even a crappy PCI card could handle that. Then my problems would be getting ATI's Hydravision to behave and troubleshooting the adapter.
 
In searching for how to make an adapter on place suggested using the Matrox Millenium. Got a few pages of items on ebay for it and half a page with PCI versions. I wonder what makes these so much cheeper then the Mirage cards? I also managed to find a page that describes how to make the adapter for a GDM-1960, I assume this is the next model up from mine. What luck!
 
Finnaly got it working with a Matrox Millenium card and the "powerstrip" program. It took almost 2 hours to get the settings set to get a stable clear picture from it. Right now I only seem to be able to get it to work at 800x600 and a refresh rate of 48hz interlaced. It doesn't flicker but my other 19" monitior I have set to 1280x1024 and its a pain to move windows from one display to the other (I haven't been able to stand lower then 1024x768 for years and now I don't like lower then 1280x960/1024). From the specs I can find on the monitor it should be able to do 1024x768, but i can't get it do it, is it because the matrox can't handle it? Also, the color is dominated by red and the color adjustments I can do help a little but not enough to get rid of it. All in all I would say this is a good deal at less then $60 for a 19" CRT monitor.
 
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