Radius Pivot Display flipped menu bar

blturner

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I recently got this Radius Pivot model 0361 and, after much finagling with the DIP switches on my VGA adapter, got a decent picture except the top of the display has some horizontal lines and the shadow of a flipped menu bar. Anyone seen this before?
 

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Volvo242GT

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That's a weird one... Almost reminds me of what happened when I tried to use my M1298 monitor with my old IIci that had a RasterOps video card installed. Just less weird than that one.

Which machine are you using with it? I know that some Pivot monitors did need their special video card to work. Had a Color Pivot SE that I got with my 2012 haul from a former collector in Everett that required use of its own video card, instead of the built-in IIci VampireVideo.
 

blturner

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@Volvo242GT It's connected to a IIci. Best info I found suggests that the display works with the built-in video: https://machut.net/mirrors/radius.vintagebox.de/RadiusQA/mono_pivots.html I have the Soft Pivot 3.2.1 control panel and driver installed as well as Dynamic Desktop 3.3. Tried system 7.1 and 7.5.. I tried with a Radius XJ8 as well but didn't make a difference which suggests to me that it's display hardware-related. It sorta looks like vertical foldover? I haven't done much troubleshooting with CRTs so I'm hoping to narrow down if this is just a caps replacement job, or something more.