Unisys 10.5" LCD Monitor w/ 4MB PCI Video Card -- $99.95 @softwareandstuff

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Jawbreak

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Hey for those who have this, Im interested in using it to display video and games. How does the display look with these? Is it clear? VCD,SVCD,DVD.
Also how long is the cable from the screen to the card?

Thanks.
 
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Rockhammer

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It will not do DVD since it only has 2meg on the vid card. VCDs and low res Divx look fine. The cable is not quite 2 meters in length...a little more if you take it off of the stand.

Fast action scenes in movies and games will ghost a bit, but not too bad since this is a TFT display. But with only 2 megs on vid card, you prolly won't be playing too many action games anyway.
 
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blitz6

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Hi guys

I purchased one of these to go with the dual display in w2k for my car pc setup (using a 7" for driver, this for pasanger). I got the unit installed and only cord is the one from the monitor itself, im assuming thats all i need. Well, i plugged int he card and installed the driver for it. It got a Error 10, cannot start device. I found a newer driver and installed it. Same thing. I put the original driver on and rebooted, card was working. I turned off the machine and plugged the LCD in. I got a green light, but no picture what so ever. I went to windows, and the dual display came up. So i set it for dual display, but still nothing. Somewhat boggled by this, i tried to go into the bios and see if there was anything about AGP first and such, but nothing. The screen displays nothing the entire time the pc is on. The system is a Shuttle SV24. Im using the riser card and it fits just fine. Thanks for any insight anyone might have. I dont have the serial cable, and i beleive its used for touch screen anyway, so doesnt seem like anything i need.
 
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DurocShark

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Originally posted by: blitz6
Hi guys

I purchased one of these to go with the dual display in w2k for my car pc setup (using a 7" for driver, this for pasanger). I got the unit installed and only cord is the one from the monitor itself, im assuming thats all i need. Well, i plugged int he card and installed the driver for it. It got a Error 10, cannot start device. I found a newer driver and installed it. Same thing. I put the original driver on and rebooted, card was working. I turned off the machine and plugged the LCD in. I got a green light, but no picture what so ever. I went to windows, and the dual display came up. So i set it for dual display, but still nothing. Somewhat boggled by this, i tried to go into the bios and see if there was anything about AGP first and such, but nothing. The screen displays nothing the entire time the pc is on. The system is a Shuttle SV24. Im using the riser card and it fits just fine. Thanks for any insight anyone might have. I dont have the serial cable, and i beleive its used for touch screen anyway, so doesnt seem like anything i need.
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Unless you just got a defective one, maybe the riser card can't pass enough power along?

 
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somnalator

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purchased one of these to go with the dual display in w2k for my car pc setup (using a 7" for driver, this for pasanger). I got the unit installed and only cord is the one from the monitor itself, im assuming thats all i need. Well, i plugged int he card and installed the driver for it. It got a Error 10, cannot start device. I found a newer driver and installed it. Same thing. I put the original driver on and rebooted, card was working. I turned off the machine and plugged the LCD in. I got a green light, but no picture what so ever. I went to windows, and the dual display came up. So i set it for dual display, but still nothing. Somewhat boggled by this, i tried to go into the bios and see if there was anything about AGP first and such, but nothing. The screen displays nothing the entire time the pc is on. The system is a Shuttle SV24. Im using the riser card and it fits just fine. Thanks for any insight anyone might have. I dont have the serial cable, and i beleive its used for touch screen anyway, so doesnt seem like anything i need.
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Blitz...Don't know if this helps, but I was up till 3 AM with the same problem. Mine is on a Soyo Dragon Plus 266a board (VIA chipset, XP2100+, one GB mem) w/nvidia GF4ti4200. I finally tried making the PCI video the first to start in BIOS instead of AGP, and voila! it works! My main AGP is still recognized as the primary, but I get an extended desktop on the LCD. I still have some issues though. XP only shows the Chips card with one MB of ram, and I have not gotten it to operate in overlay mode, so my TV card doesn't work as well on the LCD monitor.

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Yzzim

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Originally posted by: somnalator
purchased one of these to go with the dual display in w2k for my car pc setup (using a 7" for driver, this for pasanger). I got the unit installed and only cord is the one from the monitor itself, im assuming thats all i need. Well, i plugged int he card and installed the driver for it. It got a Error 10, cannot start device. I found a newer driver and installed it. Same thing. I put the original driver on and rebooted, card was working. I turned off the machine and plugged the LCD in. I got a green light, but no picture what so ever. I went to windows, and the dual display came up. So i set it for dual display, but still nothing. Somewhat boggled by this, i tried to go into the bios and see if there was anything about AGP first and such, but nothing. The screen displays nothing the entire time the pc is on. The system is a Shuttle SV24. Im using the riser card and it fits just fine. Thanks for any insight anyone might have. I dont have the serial cable, and i beleive its used for touch screen anyway, so doesnt seem like anything i need.
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Blitz...Don't know if this helps, but I was up till 3 AM with the same problem. Mine is on a Soyo Dragon Plus 266a board (VIA chipset, XP2100+, one GB mem) w/nvidia GF4ti4200. I finally tried making the PCI video the first to start in BIOS instead of AGP, and voila! it works! My main AGP is still recognized as the primary, but I get an extended desktop on the LCD. I still have some issues though. XP only shows the Chips card with one MB of ram, and I have not gotten it to operate in overlay mode, so my TV card doesn't work as well on the LCD monitor.

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Anyone else having this problem?
 
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mrVW

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Someone mentioned they had trouble getting this to work with a Shuttle miniPC SV24?

I got mine working on WIndows 2000 Pro with a ONLY the LCD. I intend to use CoPilot 2003 GPS with it.
 
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Solari

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Dec 15, 2002
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I'm sorta new to this sort of thing, but it would be very neat to somehow set this up as a GPS navigation system (perhaps also as a MP3 system?) in my car. What would be the best way to do this?

I still have my old Earthmate (I think that's what it's called) serial port GPS that I used to use on my laptop in the car with the Earthmate on the dash of the car. Bet that could work well with this LCD thing.

Any other suggestions?

Ray
 
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mrVW

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I am using mine for GPS... but I now have concern that this thing really isn't TFT.

It is not as bright as my Thinkpad T21 14.1" display, and that isn't the brightest display I have seen either...

See this thread on ThisStrife.com

It turns out these special connectors are really low voltage and the length of the cables is an issue. I'm thinking I made a mistake purchasing 3 of these for car projects :)
 
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mdetz

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Originally posted by: mrVW
I am using mine for GPS... but I now have concern that this thing really isn't TFT.

It is not as bright as my Thinkpad T21 14.1" display, and that isn't the brightest display I have seen either...

See this thread on ThisStrife.com

It turns out these special connectors are really low voltage and the length of the cables is an issue. I'm thinking I made a mistake purchasing 3 of these for car projects :)
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Dude, it was made in like '97. can't be too picky. But yeah, I would have started out with 1 first. I would be happy with mine, but it has to go back because the backlight is f'd up.
 
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Keiretsu

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so is there any progress with the cable/adapter or using an external power supply with a regular (more memory) video card?
 
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yukichigai

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I dunno, it seems to me like the pinout could very well be standard. If you look at the details of the adaptor it says "SGI power adaptor included". I'm thinking this type of connector allowed for power through the connector itself for one reason or another, maybe to increase the luminosity of early flat-panel displays or for other reasons. Silicon Graphics has always been one of the pioneers as far as displays are concerned, so who knows what they had planned for this connector.

Anyway, I did a quick search and found this. The site says basically nothing about the adaptor but it does look promising; I'll follow it up after work. Regardless, after reading all the features of the $600 device mentioned above I'd say the cost is due to the compatibility with a 1600x1024 screen more than anything else, plus all the additional bells and whistles. (Case in point: built in scaling engine and on-screen picture adjustments) This $50 adaptor may do the trick. If so, I'm all over that monitor. Aww yeah.
 
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yukichigai

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Some minor progress for anybody who cares...

Raptor 2500

This is a 24 meg vid card originally made for a 28" LCD monitor, but it may be for sale seperately as well. The only concern I have is the mention of a "dual MDR-36" connection, which makes me wonder if the output is split and intended to be combined by the afformentioned 28" monitor. Price might be an issue as well unfortunately.

UNI VG-1108isa

This is some sort of old old tester card I think, not a 3d-accellerator or anything similar but some kind of diagnostic tool. How old is it? Well it uses an ISA connector as opposed to PCI, so really, really old. (And probably pretty cheap) The card itself is pretty useless as far as I can tell but what may not be are the "personality modules" as they put it, basically a whole set of adaptors to support all these multiple connection types. The base adaptor on the card is said to be a 100-pin SCSI connector, so if anybody knows how to convert from any of the common video formats (VGA, DVI, DFP or even ECV) to 100-pin SCSI this may be an inelegant but effective solution. Of course with 100 pins all the adaptors might not share any pins at all... but if they do it's a start to figuring it out.
 
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yukichigai

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No kidding. What really pisses me off is that I was in the SF Bay Area this weekend and had I known about these companies I could have just gone there and picked up one of these things (assuming it didn't cost an arm and a leg) and tried it out for myself. :| I'll get to it week after next, unless one of these is cheap enough that I won't care about ordering online and having it shipped. The ISA diagnostic card (it's actually called a Video Generator, but yes it's for diagnostics) looks to be the most promising, since the adaptors may share pins between them.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, while I was in San Jose I snagged one of these little monitors myself. Aside from a minor dark spot in the upper-right corner this thing is great, though not the brightest monitor ever but plenty bright for me. The vid card it comes with sucks though, like everyone has said.
 
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LucJoe

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Interesting... Looking at the picture, it looks like it would work decently well as a display in a larger car (suburban or something). Would it be possible to mount this thing upside down on the ceiling of the car and have windows flip the output signal? I thought I saw a setting for that somewhere..

Also, would it be possible to play dvd's with a hardware decoder?
 
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TecJunkie

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i just found the rotate display setting for my card recently so i know its possible with a nvidia agp card. Certainly its possible with this too but i dunno how
 
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