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Well, it looks like you have found the monitor bad. Since reconnecting it only serves to kill something else, I'd not do that anymore.

We have changed out all 6 of our monitors to 19" LCD's. Functional for our adaptive needs, but annoying since the monitor is so large compared to what I am used to. Just a desktop monitor with a custom mount to the front of the control box upper left corner to leave access to the keyboards. For the most part, these multi-sync monitors have been plug and play.

I have one that I changed to a 12" LCD mounted inside the Control box. It is beautiful color, crisp and high contrast, but glitches every few minutes like there is noise or a slight timing sync issue. 99% of the time, I'll live with it for now. This was piece together with a laptop screen and a VGA LCD screen controller on the cheap.

I had been looking at some 12" LCD monitors like used on Point-Of-Sale PC systems. These are not as high of contrast, but may be multi-sync and function better without the headaches I went through. You can find them on Ebay from $30-$400. I'd avoid the touch screen type or remove it before installing.


The control being DOS based rather limits the type of graphics/video card the PC will tolerate. Besides the older Vesa character set, the displays of this vintage were also limited to VGA and SVGA. 800x600 being the max resolution for most monitor/graphics card compatibility. Some legacy graphics cards had DOS drivers and utilities that would allow eprom changes, so depending on its former life, it may or may not be setup for this application. Call it a crap shoot, unless you know DOS and legacy hardware well.

DC