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Posted by: ckurowic on 2008-02-16 21:46:47
Hey everyone. I finally got ahold of a 68k Mac. The web page is at http://emichtm.dyndns.org
More to come soon!
However, the screen picture is washed out. It is mostly white. I have a dell flatscreen monitor attached to it that is not the issue. I tried the built in video only to get the sad Mac on startup. The other option is the Rasterops card, but this is washed out like I said. I can tell whats going on on the screen, but its rather annoying. Any tricks to fix this? (it doesn't matter what color sync profile I use, and there is no option to calibrate).
Sytem: Quadra 700
Mac OS 8.0
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Posted by: tomlee59 on 2008-02-16 22:37:33
I don't know what controls you have on that monitor, but a washed-out image is generally the result of excessive brightness/insufficient contrast. Try adjusting those (if possible) and see if you can make things look more to your liking.
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Posted by: t3h on 2008-02-17 07:36:02
What's the code under the Sad Mac?
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Posted by: ckurowic on 2008-02-17 12:53:25
The contrast and brightness are the things I tried without success. I thought this was the problem at first.
The code under the sad mac is unreadable because the image is "scattered" all over the screen. there are a few places that you can tell its the sad mac face, though it has shown up normally once or twice. I'll attempt to get the code.
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Posted by: beachycove on 2008-02-17 13:13:51
Bad vram can have this effect. I don't happen to have one, but I would assume that the Q700 has vram on the logic board and slots for additional vram. You might try cleaning/ removing the additional vram chips if it has any, and see if there is an improvement. I have certainly seen this work on other models: e.g., an LCIII just yesterday.
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Posted by: t3h on 2008-02-17 16:22:12
The contrast and brightness are the things I tried without success. I thought this was the problem at first.
The code under the sad mac is unreadable because the image is "scattered" all over the screen. there are a few places that you can tell its the sad mac face, though it has shown up normally once or twice. I'll attempt to get the code. Could you upload a photo? I'm interested to see that...
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Posted by: ckurowic on 2008-02-23 17:43:42
Sorry I have not updated in awhile. I have been very busy with school. I'll get an image up as soon as I can.
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Posted by: ckurowic on 2008-02-27 10:51:08
Okay, it was the rasterops video card that was to blame. I took it out and used the built in video, now it looks just fine.
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