Nah I still have a 2008 but I have modern graphics cards. Even when it was New it was driving a 1900x1200 and could drive an apple 30in.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:53 PM, <klausknuthmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Lea,
It might sound like really nasty advice, but so-called “personal computers” (which includes Apple - especially lately in my book) are being viewed as obsolete after some 3 years +. Yours is now double that age.
Could that be the underlying issue?
All the best,
Klaus
On Nov 4, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps someone on this list has experienced this and can help.
>
> I'm using an early 2008 Mac Pro tower with Mavericks installed. Up until this morning I used two Apple Cinema displays. My secondary monitor, a 20 inch Apple Cinema, gave up the ship yesterday and wouldn't give a picture at all today.
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> I purchased a Dell ultra high resolution, not 4K, monitor, brought it home, hooked it up VGA to DMI and despite messing in my preferences I could never get the screen on the second monitor to look natural and not stretched.
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> At the recommendation of tech-support I went with a DMI to HDMI cable, skipping VGA completely, and couldn't get a picture on the second monitor at all.
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> Am I missing something?Surely there's a monitor out there of high resolution that will work on my older computer.
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> I'm open to suggestions, ideas, troubleshooting workarounds.
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> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> Lea
>
> your kids . my camera . we'll click
