Over Range with Neat Planar Montor

[MD Marcus]

I'm trying to help a friend setup a Planar monitor on an HP desktop. The PC
works fine with the old CRT monitor. The Planar was a gift from a relative
due to a death in the family, no CD, no instructions. I can boot to safe
mode, set resolution, but not refresh rate. Everytime it boots to normal
mode, POST is good, XP startup screen is good, then it goes blank with the
popup OVER RANGE. I assume that to be Planar's way of saying Out of Range.
I can and have gone through all of the on screen settings using the
monitor's adjustment options. I don't know what some of those settings
should be, like Phase. I can't find anything on Over Range in google
(except microwave stuff). I tried the MS KB proceudre for Out Of Range, but
can not see refresh rate in settings, advanced> to set it to default. I
have tried various resolutions, 256 colors, etc. The monitor is connected
using the standard analog cable, but it also has a strange jack that is not
a digital jack...don't know what that's for. It is about an inch long, 1/4
wide, two sets of prongs with a bar between them...neat looking thing, and
we have the cable to go with that jack. TIA

 

[Guest]

Go back in to "Safe Mode" Open desktop properties/settings/advance.
Under "Monitor Settings" Select either "Adaptor Default" Or the lowest
setting probly 60Hertz. Then restart the PC. Hopefully this will work in
"Safe Mode".
If that is a "no go".
Try,with PC off and monitor on to use the monitor setting menu to set the
range/ranges of the monitor. It may be as simple as selecting "Auto Adjust".
It may be caused by the Video card not being able to handle the new monitor
without updated drivers. Hook up the CRT monitor and go to the V-card site
for possible drivers. And also go to Monitor's Mfg. site for it's drivers.
In safe mode with new monitor hooked up. Install drivers for the new
Moniter. And disable the old monitor in Device Manager.

 

[Bob I]

Start here. They have drivers.
http://www.planar.com/support/

 

[dobey]

Start here. They have drivers.
http://www.planar.com/support/

Could be an adapter for a different machine. I have a Sun 21 inch CRT
monitor with dual input, but the pigtail on the monitor is for some other
machine which I could use with an adapter, and the second input is HD15, or
the standard PC VGA D-plug.

Depending on your VGA card you may be able to set the properties for the
monitor, max res, hertz etc.. ATI allows you to do this.

Of course you need to know those parameters to begin with.