> I have 1 17" A1497A and 2 19" A1097C HP monitors. They came
> off a HP9000.
> I bought a cable (red,green,blue converter) but they still
> won't work with a PC. Do I have to buy a special video card?
> Any help would be of course appreciated.
Both of these monitors are RGB sync-on-green, so there should be 3
BNCs on the back. You can find circuits to adapt a VGA DA15 output to
3-wire sync-on-green at
http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/apollo.htmlhttp://saturn.tlug.org/sunstuff/ffmonitor.html
Additional discussion, including specs of these two models, is at
http://saturn.tlug.org/sunstuff/ffmonitor.html
Steve Dirickson WestWin Consulting
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