Display / AGP Graphics Help Please!

twister

twister

Howdy
Under the System Profiler, if you go to 'System Profile' then look under 'Hardware Overview' you will see 'Machine model' Mine says: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) (version = 2.7) My question is how to change that version 2.7 to version 2.8?

My reason is that we have to machines here at work. A 400 and a 450. The 400 can get a screen resolution up to 1920 x 1080 and the 450 can only go up to 1027 x 768. Now i unplugged the monitor of the 400 and plugged it into the 450 and got the same results. No choices over 1027x768. Other than that the two machines have the same video cards.

So can anyone help me?
 
That sounds more like a videocard issue. The machine model is really just the version of the computer, it's the videocard that matters. Are you positive both video cards are the same? Did you check to make sure all the model numbers are exactly the same in the system profiler. Also, you said you plugged the monitor from the other machine into yours, did you do that while it was booted, or did you do it while the computer was turned off? If you did it while it's on, it won't change any of the options based on the monitor connected as that information is gathered on boot.

Brian
 
I was wondering if i had to reboot. I'll try that later. And I'm 99% positive our video cards are the same. Except for that version #
 
mine is 2.8 and my res goes up to 1920 X 1080, but I didn't know that until I got a new monitor in December.
 
yea it's possible, mine updated itself upon restart, and I was shocked to find the system knows what monitor was connected. It knew what profile was for what monitor and adjusted itself for the profile I set previously.
 
Originally posted by Urbansory
yea it's possible, mine updated itself upon restart, and I was shocked to find the system knows what monitor was connected. It knew what profile was for what monitor and adjusted itself for the profile I set previously.
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It makes sense that it knows what monitor is hooked up on booting, doesn't it? All electronics have low-level processors that control their functioning and provide the machine's vitals, including computer monitors, and when your computer interfaces with the monitor it reads this information and determines what it can do with it.

Twister: what kinds of monitors are you using? Try shutting down both computers and switching the monitors, and see if it works then. I'm confused about which same results you got: the 450 got 1024x768 on both monitors, or the monitor originally on the 450 got 1024x768 on both computers. In the first case, the video card's wacky; in the second, the monitor only goes up to 1024x768.
 
Humm, I believe my previous testing to have gone wrong. I was thinking plug and play but i guess a monitor is not like that. OOPS So now i'll try again, the right way.

I'll be back in 10
 
Ok so if I would have done the test right in the first place i wouldn't have had to ask. I shut down, plugged in a different monitor, and started back up and then i could set my resolution up to 1920 x 1080. So it is my monitors fault that i can't get a higher resolution. So now i have to go have a talk with the boss' to get a better monitor. Unfortunately the one I was testing with isn't free.

Thanks for all the help.
 
OH MY GOSH! I traded monitors with one of the boss guys and now i have a Dell Trinitron or something like that and it's AMAZING. The colors are so colorful, and blacks so black. And I have room to work! No more windows in the way of my flash or photoshop documents. THIS IS SO COOL!

Course now he's all bummed because he realizes my monitor sucked.
 
So you traded your old pony for his thoroughbred stallion and he's upset because he didn't ride the horses first?

That sounds like his problem. :)
 
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