JamesDoebbler

Hey guys,
I have the DennisK LCD screen (Sharp LQ9D161) and VGA controller (DigitalView ACG-1024) and have everything set up and working fine, including the touchscreen. The only problem is running it on my Shuttle FV24 motherboard. Whenever I run the display at 640x480, the LCD isnt able to sync and is unreadable. If i up the resolution to 800x600 (the controller rescales it to 640x480) then the display works fine (except for the unreadable scaled text). I have tried several other computers at 640x480, and the screen works (and looks) great, so the problem is specific to the FV24. Also, the FV24 640x480 output works fine on all of the three monitors I've tried it on. I have tried messing with all settings in drivers and on the LCD via OSD controls to no avail.

The interesting part to this problem is that if I remove drivers and run with the default VGA drivers, the display works okay. This is of course unacceptable because it will only go up to 16 colors in this mode, leaving any pictures or videos looking like pure crap. BUT, this leads me to believe that the problem is perhaps a driver issue and not a hardware issue. I have tried Windows 98SE, 2K, and XP with multiple driver versions on each (from Shuttle, S3, and VIA) with the same problems. I have updated to the latest bios available from Shuttle (which also claimed to updat something to do with the onboard video), but again, no luck.

I would really appreciate it if anyone could offer any suggestions. Ideally, if anyone has both this controller and motherboard, tell me your results.

I already have a case made up for the FV24 (old pics at http://feral.resnet.tamu.edu/pics/ ) so changing motherboards really is a last resort. I would consider switching to the FV25 since it uses a different video chipset, and I'm hoping that would fix my problems, but I haven't been able to find it without the case. Maybe if someone wants the FV24 + aluminum case I can buy the SV25 and switch the motherboards out...email me if anyone's interested.

I hopefully await any help or suggestions. Thanks!

James Doebbler
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moahdib

Did you try using the drivers from s3( www.s3graphics.com)? I think the chipset on the fv24 is the savage 4.
You might give that a also. Shuttle writes ****ty drivers . =(

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PBMax

Try changing the refresh rate of your video card. It might fix the problem.

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JamesDoebbler

moahdib:
Like i said in my first post, i tried drivers from shuttle (mobo manufacturer), S3 (graphics manufacturer), and VIA (chipset manufacturer) in all 3 OSes with no luck.
BTW, even though the Shuttle specs say the chipset is the Savage4, it must be the SavagePro since thats the only drivers that come with it and work for it. Also, I think it says it's the SavagePro on the VIA page as well. I tried to force some Savage4 drivers, but they didn't work at all.



PBMax:
I guess i forgot to mention that specifically, but I tried all different refresh rates as well.



Anyone else have a suggestion?

James Doebbler
james.doebbler@tamu.edu
AIM S/N: JDSarcasm

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