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Radius PrecisionColor/19
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More details are needed for troubleshooting purposes.
Is it a Radius pivot? What are you running the monitor from? Onboard video or a Radius PrecisionColor nubus video card? If an ordinary monitor running from a Radius Nubus card, then presumably RadiusWare would be all you need, and it is easily found. If a pivot or from onboard video, you may be staring at a blank screen for a few weeks still. Some Radius monitors were cantankerous.
Try Gamba for help on this.
Is it a Radius pivot? What are you running the monitor from? Onboard video or a Radius PrecisionColor nubus video card? If an ordinary monitor running from a Radius Nubus card, then presumably RadiusWare would be all you need, and it is easily found. If a pivot or from onboard video, you may be staring at a blank screen for a few weeks still. Some Radius monitors were cantankerous.
Try Gamba for help on this.
It's exactly what it says. It's a Radius PrecisionColor 19. It's a NUBUS video card with just Video out, and supposedly some accelelerator function. It comes up, and I can view the video output from either onboard or the card, without having to remove the card. It reports as a PrecisionColor 19. I have found very little about the card on ebay.
I have RadiusWare installed, but no way to change resolutions.
Currently using an Apple MultiSync 17" (720 Display). And on the Quadra built-in video, I can change rez. On the Radius, I am stuck at 640x480, except I can change from black & white all the way up to millions of colors.
I am scratching my head. The card came with the Quadra, but I can't find drivers nor very many references for this.
I have RadiusWare installed, but no way to change resolutions.
Currently using an Apple MultiSync 17" (720 Display). And on the Quadra built-in video, I can change rez. On the Radius, I am stuck at 640x480, except I can change from black & white all the way up to millions of colors.
I am scratching my head. The card came with the Quadra, but I can't find drivers nor very many references for this.
Ok, after digging around, I found that it's not a PrecisionColor/19, but rather a PrecisionColor 24XP.
Due to what it looks like to be older than the Quadra Video, and the lack of Resolution Support higher than 832x624@ 24-bit color, I am not sure if it's better than the Quadra Video, or if it is.
Any questions? Comments?
btw, here's a Link from LEM:
http://lowendmac.com/video/radius24xp.html
FYI: with the video RAM I have, it does 1024x768 @ Thousands of Colors off the internal video on the Quadra. Another side-note is that internal video capture doesn't work on the Quadra if I use the Radius
Due to what it looks like to be older than the Quadra Video, and the lack of Resolution Support higher than 832x624@ 24-bit color, I am not sure if it's better than the Quadra Video, or if it is.
Any questions? Comments?
btw, here's a Link from LEM:
http://lowendmac.com/video/radius24xp.html
FYI: with the video RAM I have, it does 1024x768 @ Thousands of Colors off the internal video on the Quadra. Another side-note is that internal video capture doesn't work on the Quadra if I use the Radius
Try starting from cold (ie, not a warm reboot). Press and hold in the 'T' key for as long as it takes the card to strut its stuff and cycle through the available configurations. Each will appear for about 4sec, giving you a rectangle with a more-or-less readable message
A 24XP will give you 832 x 624 (max.) at 24-bit. If the display is a PrecisionColor 19, there will be no WYSIWYG mode and no two-page mode such as the 8XJ and 24X cards offer.
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that changes the 'Timing: ' line with each available. When your Nirvana arrives, release the 'T' key. The Mac should restart and use the configuration that was in use immediately before release of the key. All of this assumes that the Installer on the RadiusWare diskette has previously been used to install the software of its choice for your Mac.
A 24XP will give you 832 x 624 (max.) at 24-bit. If the display is a PrecisionColor 19, there will be no WYSIWYG mode and no two-page mode such as the 8XJ and 24X cards offer.
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Equill has likely hit the nail on the head there.
Failing this, however, there is also the question of what software you have on the machine. What System? Are you trying to change resolution in the relevant Radius Control Panel (I think it's Dynamic Desktop, but I am not in a position to check this right now), or in the Monitors and Sounds Control Panel (bad choice)?
The devil is in the detail.
In my experience, the ColorSync software in the default installations of OS7.6 - 8.1 does not always play particularly well with some large monitors, even Apple's own brand of monitors, so that a little fiddling is sometimes needed. E.g., you can occasionally get somewhere further along with the Monitors Control Panel installed typically in the Apple Extras folder. Why the fiddle I can't say. You could also try disabling Monitors and Sounds in your Extensions Manager and then play with the Radius software without interference from the default System installation.
A Radius card ought to work with a Radius Monitor, though the PrecisionColor 24XT is not going to do millions of colours on a 19" colour CRT, and it well and truly pre-dates release of MacOS 8.1, so there may be compatibility issues if that's what you are using. My 24XT does, however, work very nicely with my two page fixed resolution Radius 20" greyscale in my 840av, under a variety of OS setups, including MacOS8.1. So it stands to reason that it should drive a large resolution of some description on your 19" Radius in your 840av.
However, almost no Nubus card will give you better video output than the 840av does natively, and perhaps none will, since Nubus is relatively slow (though those in the 840av are double speed). If your monitor is working from onboard video, you can confidently remove the 24XT as an unnecessary encumbrance, in order to get yourself a nice little IIci and stick it in there. A 24XT is not a high end card for an 840av.
I would also be surprised if a Radius 19" monitor offered a resolution higher than the one you have already gotten, though an 840av will indeed go higher than 1024x768 and will, as I recall, do millions at 1024x768 if it has the vram upgrade of 4x256k vram simms.
Failing this, however, there is also the question of what software you have on the machine. What System? Are you trying to change resolution in the relevant Radius Control Panel (I think it's Dynamic Desktop, but I am not in a position to check this right now), or in the Monitors and Sounds Control Panel (bad choice)?
The devil is in the detail.
In my experience, the ColorSync software in the default installations of OS7.6 - 8.1 does not always play particularly well with some large monitors, even Apple's own brand of monitors, so that a little fiddling is sometimes needed. E.g., you can occasionally get somewhere further along with the Monitors Control Panel installed typically in the Apple Extras folder. Why the fiddle I can't say. You could also try disabling Monitors and Sounds in your Extensions Manager and then play with the Radius software without interference from the default System installation.
A Radius card ought to work with a Radius Monitor, though the PrecisionColor 24XT is not going to do millions of colours on a 19" colour CRT, and it well and truly pre-dates release of MacOS 8.1, so there may be compatibility issues if that's what you are using. My 24XT does, however, work very nicely with my two page fixed resolution Radius 20" greyscale in my 840av, under a variety of OS setups, including MacOS8.1. So it stands to reason that it should drive a large resolution of some description on your 19" Radius in your 840av.
However, almost no Nubus card will give you better video output than the 840av does natively, and perhaps none will, since Nubus is relatively slow (though those in the 840av are double speed). If your monitor is working from onboard video, you can confidently remove the 24XT as an unnecessary encumbrance, in order to get yourself a nice little IIci and stick it in there. A 24XT is not a high end card for an 840av.
I would also be surprised if a Radius 19" monitor offered a resolution higher than the one you have already gotten, though an 840av will indeed go higher than 1024x768 and will, as I recall, do millions at 1024x768 if it has the vram upgrade of 4x256k vram simms.
Year of manufacture of the Display.
Year of Manufacture/copyright date on the NuBus Card.
System Software you're running.
Extensions you're running, some had known issues.
Reason for request:
I've got just about all the RadiusWare diskettes available from the Radius16/25 Accelerator day ('87 or thereabouts) thru the heyday of the Rocket33, including RocketShare with ALL THE DOCS!
. . . and the support page printouts to boot!
Provide the above info and I'll see what I can dig out of the treasure chests.
jt: packrat of packrats! :lol:
Year of Manufacture/copyright date on the NuBus Card.
System Software you're running.
Extensions you're running, some had known issues.
Reason for request:
I've got just about all the RadiusWare diskettes available from the Radius16/25 Accelerator day ('87 or thereabouts) thru the heyday of the Rocket33, including RocketShare with ALL THE DOCS!
. . . and the support page printouts to boot!
Provide the above info and I'll see what I can dig out of the treasure chests.
jt: packrat of packrats! :lol:
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