Over Range with Neat Planar Montor

August 22, 2007

I'm trying to help a friend setup a Planar monitor on an HP desktop. The PC

works fine with the old CRT monitor. The Planar was a gift from a relative

due to a death in the family, no CD, no instructions. I can boot to safe

mode, set resolution, but not refresh rate. Everytime it boots to normal

mode, POST is good, XP startup screen is good, then it goes blank with the

popup OVER RANGE. I assume that to be Planar's way of saying Out of Range.

I can and have gone through all of the on screen settings using the

monitor's adjustment options. I don't know what some of those settings

should be, like Phase. I can't find anything on Over Range in google

(except microwave stuff). I tried the MS KB proceudre for Out Of Range, but

can not see refresh rate in settings, advanced> to set it to default. I

have tried various resolutions, 256 colors, etc. The monitor is connected

using the standard analog cable, but it also has a strange jack that is not

a digital jack...don't know what that's for. It is about an inch long, 1/4

wide, two sets of prongs with a bar between them...neat looking thing, and

we have the cable to go with that jack. TIA

August 22, 2007

RE: Over Range with Neat Planar Montor

Go back in to "Safe Mode" Open desktop properties/settings/advance.

Under "Monitor Settings" Select either "Adaptor Default" Or the lowest

setting probly 60Hertz. Then restart the PC. Hopefully this will work in

"Safe Mode".

If that is a "no go".

Try,with PC off and monitor on to use the monitor setting menu to set the

range/ranges of the monitor. It may be as simple as selecting "Auto Adjust".

It may be caused by the Video card not being able to handle the new monitor

without updated drivers. Hook up the CRT monitor and go to the V-card site

for possible drivers. And also go to Monitor's Mfg. site for it's drivers.

In safe mode with new monitor hooked up. Install drivers for the new

Moniter. And disable the old monitor in Device Manager.

"MD Marcus" wrote:

> I'm trying to help a friend setup a Planar monitor on an HP desktop. The PC

> works fine with the old CRT monitor. The Planar was a gift from a relative

> due to a death in the family, no CD, no instructions. I can boot to safe

> mode, set resolution, but not refresh rate. Everytime it boots to normal

> mode, POST is good, XP startup screen is good, then it goes blank with the

> popup OVER RANGE. I assume that to be Planar's way of saying Out of Range.

> I can and have gone through all of the on screen settings using the

> monitor's adjustment options. I don't know what some of those settings

> should be, like Phase. I can't find anything on Over Range in google

> (except microwave stuff). I tried the MS KB proceudre for Out Of Range, but

> can not see refresh rate in settings, advanced> to set it to default. I

> have tried various resolutions, 256 colors, etc. The monitor is connected

> using the standard analog cable, but it also has a strange jack that is not

> a digital jack...don't know what that's for. It is about an inch long, 1/4

> wide, two sets of prongs with a bar between them...neat looking thing, and

> we have the cable to go with that jack. TIA

>

August 23, 2007

Re: Over Range with Neat Planar Montor

Start here. They have drivers.

http://www.planar.com/support/

MD Marcus wrote: