[mkuehn]

I was recently able to pick up one of the smaller Apple color monitors (I can't recall which one exactly, I think it's a 13", and in any case, it has brightness and contrast dials and the power button on the front, and it is mounted on a swivel/tilt base...maybe that helps!) and an LCIII for $15, so I thought I might be able to use the monitor with a PC and bought the setup. Since I don't have a PC (yet) I thought I'd test it with my wife's iMac DV. I plugged it in and got the familiar "scrolling lines" effect (you'll know what I'm talking about if you've seen it before, it's kind of like a TV with the vertical and horizontal hold misadjusted). I tried changing the resolution, etc., but nothing seemed to help.

Of course, before all this, I was looking through the Apple Spec Database and it said that this monitor wouldn't work as a VGA monitor, but I figured stranger things have happened, so I tried it anyway.

To make a long story short, is there any kind of easy and cheap way to make this monitor work with a PC? I'm thinking along the lines of a small cable adapter or easy hardware hack, not some $100 VGA to Mac converter box.

TIA,
Matthew

[tooki]

The thing is that that monitor is fixed-frequency; it syncs to 67Hz ONLY, not to the 60Hz most PCs default to (the iMac DV's 640x480 is 117Hz). You need a plug adapter, which you must already have since the iMac DV uses a PC-style connector. A 67Hz monitor can sort of display a 60Hz signal (well enough for you to find the Windows Control Panel and change it to 67Hz), so just set the PC to 640x480 at 67Hz andf it should work.

tooki