Single Sync Woes

[rkitchen at coe.neu.edu (Ryan L. Kitchen)]

Of course I've googled and tried, albiet briefly, to find a simple (cheap) 
solution. The biggest problem I have had was basically finding information that 
repeats.  Everyone has a lot of ideas in arcane newsgroups about how you should 
get this very specific GDM-1960/1961 to work with VGA(sync on green apparently 
needs SOMETHING modified to make it work with VGA standards, but nobody agrees 
on what the SOMETHING is.)

Everyone with a business wants to sell "their" p.o.s. card to me. I was hoping 
there was a magical fix so that when I wanted to, I could plug this monitor 
into MY video card and get a display. I'm not worried about dos or game 
windows. I just want a Display in windows, period.

The info I have seen most often is 1280x1024 standard max res. with a refresh 
of 72 hz. With these settings configured, if i plug the monitor in, it doesn't 
work. This has to do with sync incompatibility that can be solved by either a) 
buying a 50 dollar converter, or building one. I would opt for the building 
portion if I could just get a clear answer on exactly how to do it. 

Thanks for the thoughts thus far....

RLK

Quoting Bruce Davis <ayden at carolingia.org>:

> See comments below.
> 
> Ryan L. Kitchen wrote:
> 
> > I recently acquired a very interesting piece of equipment: A very 
> > large single sync monitor with 3 (RGB) bnc connections on the back. It 
> > is marked as a Digital brand model VRT19-HA, but it is also marked as 
> > a GDM-1961 which I am told indicates the touch of sony? not that it 
> > matters....
> 
> 
> GDM does indicate that this is a Sony CRT.
>  
> 
> > At any rate, I have a five connector bnc to 15 pin vga cable and i'm 
> > ready to roll... or am I. It is not a multi sync monitor, it is very 
> > picky about the vertical and horizontal refresh rates. In good ol' 
> > Solaris and linux et al you can manually choose these things. I'm sure 
> > it would work fine on my sparc with my handy dandy 13w3 adapter...but 
> > i want to use this thing on a pc. I have a geforce 2 256. I also have 
> > a GeForce 4 Ti4200 that is waiting for a power supply and case to 
> > power the M.B. that will hold it. I have heard this monitor requires a 
> > video card that can support a refresh rate of 130 cycles ... I know 
> > the Geforce 2 goes at least to 120... I'm not sure about the GF4. 
> 
> 
> 
> This seems rather high.  In my last job, I worked with many SGI 
> monitors, including single and multisync versions.  When we would attach 
> a multisync monitor to a box designed for a single sync monitor, the 
> multisync monitor adjusted properly and displayed the image correctly at 
> 75 hz.
> 
> > Basically, I am hardware oriented, but I've never really taken a 
> > monitor apart or done any significant modifications. I also understand 
> > how a capacitor works and how large the ones are in CRT based devices 
> > (such as monitors and tv's). I would prefer to be alive. With all this 
> > in mind, can anyone enlighten me? I don't really want to buy any other 
> > video cards, as I have 2 very nice ones already... but is there a home 
> > made solution to get this thing running? I just don't seem to have 
> > very many resources. yes I have soldering iron and the necessary know 
> > how...
> 
> 
> 
> I don't think you need to do anything that drastic.  I did a quick 
> google search on GDM-1961 and found the following as the first result 
> returned:
> 
> Solutions to make ANY MONITOR work on a PC or MAC
> http://www.si87.com/MonitorSolutions/sony/gdm1961.html
> 
> It looks like you want a sync converter ($50).
> 
> I'm sure there are other solutions.
> 
> > Many thanks,
> > Ryan K.
> 
> 
> Bruce Davis
> Medford, MA
> 
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