Can I keep LCD panel?

[Mr. Land]

Hello,

I received an LG 22" LCD display as a gift.

I'm trying to figure out if I can keep it. My situation is that I
currently use 1 large conventional monitor with two different systems
via a KVM switch.

Neither system seems to be capable of supplying the 1680x1050
resolution recommended for this display in its documentation. That
resolution does not appear as an option in the display settings of
either machine, even after installing the monitor "driver" from the
included CD.

I can run the new display at 1280x1024 on both machines, but the
aspect ratio is way off and it's unusable.

These are pretty old systems and, assuming the video cards are too
old, I'm trying to determine if there's a way to upgrade their video
cards to support the wider display that makes sense from a cost
perspective. One machine (Windows Server 2003) has a Matrox Millenium
G450 PCI card and is used for working with static graphics and
programming. The other machine (Windows XP) currently has an ATI All-
In-Wonder 128 Pro (I do not use/care about the TV function) - that
machine is used for general computing and watching DVD's. I don't
play very many games so I don't think I would need a lot of heavy game-
graphics power.

Does it make any sense to try to upgrade the video cards in these
machines to use the new display? If so, given my described usage,
what sort of cards should I be considering?

Thanks very much for any help...

 

[Frank McCoy]

Hello,

I received an LG 22" LCD display as a gift.

I'm trying to figure out if I can keep it. My situation is that I
currently use 1 large conventional monitor with two different systems
via a KVM switch.

Neither system seems to be capable of supplying the 1680x1050
resolution recommended for this display in its documentation. That
resolution does not appear as an option in the display settings of
either machine, even after installing the monitor "driver" from the
included CD.

I can run the new display at 1280x1024 on both machines, but the
aspect ratio is way off and it's unusable.

These are pretty old systems and, assuming the video cards are too
old, I'm trying to determine if there's a way to upgrade their video
cards to support the wider display that makes sense from a cost
perspective. One machine (Windows Server 2003) has a Matrox Millenium
G450 PCI card and is used for working with static graphics and
programming. The other machine (Windows XP) currently has an ATI All-
In-Wonder 128 Pro (I do not use/care about the TV function) - that
machine is used for general computing and watching DVD's. I don't
play very many games so I don't think I would need a lot of heavy game-
graphics power.

Does it make any sense to try to upgrade the video cards in these
machines to use the new display? If so, given my described usage,
what sort of cards should I be considering?

Thanks very much for any help...

I thought I just answered this question.
Geesh!

For the ATI "All In Wonder", get a 2006 AGP edition of the same card.
It'll fit right in, do the same things, and cost unde $150. You might
have to update the driver from their website; but that happens with most
cards these days.

For the Matrox, about any cheap but more modern card would probably work
and far better than the one you have now. Most likely you could get by
for under $70 for a decent replacement.

If you don't need the TV tuner of the ALL-IN-WONDER, then any cheap card
would also probably do for the ATI replacement as well. You probably
don't need the super-fast graphics and deep memory of the newer AIW
cards.

 

[spodosaurus]

Mr. Land wrote:

This has been answered already. No point in starting yet another thread,
unless you want to be insulted.

Cheers,

Ari

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[Mr. Land]

Mr. Land wrote:

This has been answered already. No point in starting yet another thread,
unless you want to be insulted.

Cheers,

Ari

Sorry for the cross-posting. For some reason I didn't see my post
show up in the other group for quite some time, and assumed it had
been filtered out, perhaps for being off-topic, or otherwise ended up
in the bit bucket.