I am trying to change the monitor resolution from its current 600 x 460 to 600 x 800. When I use the monitor control panel there are no options available to change the resolution. I have a NEC MultiSync XV15. Using a PowerMac 7200/90 OS8.6 80megs RAM Any Ideas? Thanks Mike A

You may want to change the Monitor control panel options from "Resolution: Show Recommended" to "Resolution:Show ALL". If when you click on a resolution the screen goes black or wacky DON'T DO ANYTHING and it will revert to previous resolution in about ten seconds or so. To keep the changes you will be asked to click 'OK', and you are given that amount of time to do so before it reverts.

fieraci Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunatey the Monitor Control screen does not offer the Show All option when I click on the "Resolution: Show reccommended" button. Is there something missing in my computer maybe?

The 7200's onboard video may only be powerful enough to push your current resolution. If you change your color settings to a lesser mode (from MILLIONS of colors to THOUSANDS, or 256) you should be getting more resolution options. Other suggestion is to get some additional V-Ram if your 7200 will take it, or get a video card. 4 meg PCI cards for mac are pretty cheap.

I tried your suggestion to change the color settings to thousands or 256 with no success. The good news is that I was able to find a shareware program called SwitchRes2 that installs a icon in the menu bar. The dropdown menu for that icon gives me about 10 resolution choices all the way up to 1024x768. So for the time being I'll consider the situation resolved. Thanks for your input Fieraci.