I have a LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power cord setup that I use when testing and/or re-installing a desktop. Recently during a reinstall, the monitor showed “out of sync”, it’s an older Viewsonic VG150 and my first thought was the monitor has finally passed it’s prime and it can’t handle the newer video cards. Something that didn’t make sense though was that the bios and boot sequence did display on the monitor and it would only display “out of sync” when windows started. Some head scratching later, I realized it must be the resolution. I plugged in a newer widescreen monitor and viewed the display properties and indeed the display was set to a widescreen resolution. I changed it to 1024 x 768, applied the setting, switched the monitor back to the Viewsonic and voila! the Viewsonic displayed the window’s desktop. A simple solution that will keep my old tried and tested monitor in operation.
