Changing Your Workstation’s Hardware Configuration

Changing Your Monitor Type

Changing Your Monitor Type

Your system ships from the factory preset to use a monitor with a specific resolution and frequency. If you replace your monitor with a different type, you must reconfigure your workstation to support it.

There are two ways to reconfigure your workstation to support a different monitor type:

Setting the Monitor Type from the Boot Console Interface

To change your workstation’s graphics parameters before you replace your monitor, go to “Displaying and Setting the Monitor Type” in Appendix D.

Setting the Monitor Type at Power On

If you replace your workstation’s monitor with a different monitor type, and do not set the workstation’s graphics parameters by using the monitor command before doing so, you need to perform the following:

Wait 2 seconds after the Num Lock light flashes near the end of the boot sequence, then press Tab (only press Tab once) to initiate the automatic monitor selection process.

The system cycles through the supported monitor types. Until the system tries a monitor type that is compatible with your monitor, the display is unreadable.

When you are able to read the information displayed, press the Enter key to stop the system from trying other monitor types. The system displays information similar to the following:

MONITOR INFORMATION

 

 

Path

Slot Head Type

Size

Freq Class

-------- ---- ---- --------- ---- -----

GRAPHICS(0)

0

1

12 1280x1024 72Hz

This is type 12 of 15 types.

Press [RETURN] to select this monitor type:

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