Monitors and Video cards work together, They there for need to be compatable with each other. If problems are encountered while trying to display certain programs make sure the video card and monitor meet the requirments of the program, to do this find out the capabilities of both, either by using the doc's that came with them or by finding them on the Internet doing a search for the vendors.
Some monitors may only have a max. resolution of 640 X 480 while the video card may have greater capabilities. Locate the resolution facts about your monitor and the color capabilities, there is 16, 256, true 16 bit and true 32 bit. Match your hardware settings to the monitor in the setup. Some programs my require a VESA driver be used, these usually come with the program.
If conflicts arise, check to make sure the resources for the video card are available, that the miniumum requirements of the program are being met. Sometimes if the screen is slow to respond to the program it is an indication of running low on ram, to solve this increase the ram size, some video cards have ram built right into them to help compinsate for this. Get the lastest drivers available for your video card
in the platform you are using( eg: Win95, Win3.1. )
Usually conflicts arise when the resolution exceeds the monitors capabilities, the program exceeds the video cards capabilities, or there is not enough memory installed for the graphics to run properly. Graphic programs and Cad's take large amounts of memory both for processing and for displaying, slow screen changes, slow system response, system halts or freeze-ups indicate that there is a lack of memory avalaible. Increasing on board ram will help alot and upgrading to a faster video card with more memory will improve performance to a point of being like a new machine. Make sure you do not exceed the color capabilities of your monitor and video card, some are only rated for 16 colors, most VGA color monitors will do 256 colors with the proper driver for the video card. Without a good video card don't expect good performance out of your monitor,
the monitor can only display the information it recieves from the video card.
Modes:
VGA= 640 X 480 Resolution , Colors can be from 16 to 24M
SVGA=greater than 640 X 480 Resolution, Colors can be from 256 to 24M
Most of the newer programs require a minimum of SVGA capabilities, check the info. of the program to make sure you have the resources required to run the program.
You may have a great motherboard and components but they are only put to there full potential when a good video card and monitor are used.
I/O & IRQ & DMA-system resource info.
Device Drivers-driver updates
