Message-ID: <36DAC9CB.256EF281@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:09:31 -0500 From: "Ian Chapman" Organization: Nortel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: silly question (I read the FAQ first). References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 32 DOT 19990225020746 DOT 00901390 AT pop DOT globalserve DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Orig: Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Paul, mode switch on a monitor may or may not shorten the monitor life depending on the type of horizontal oscillator. The cheaper mono type when I was into that use a series of one shots to generate front porch, scan period and back porch. Thus if you blasted them with the wrong horizontal frequency the resonant coil would be off frequency and smoke. Not sure but the multi sync stuff have no one shots and a much broader resonant coil. I think they phase lock onto what they receive as Horizontal drive. By multi sync I mean monitors that are dual purpose vga/svga etc. Regards Ian.