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"Outside the range" - Matrox Millenium

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First post, by melbar

Posted on 2020-09-03, 04:38

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I have a strange message when i am installing the drivers of a Matrox Millenium on a Win95 platform:

"Außerhalb des Bereichs" - called in german
that means: "Outside the range"

What does it means? Cause after driver install and reboot, and after the Win95 boot logo, the screen remains black... and showing this message.
It happens with the internal win95 matrox driver , and also with the driver v4.12.013 i have reinstalled.

It is something with the resolutions and /or frames per second?
The monitor is a standard 19" TFT VGA with native 1280x1024.

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Reply 1 of 4, by Cyberdyne

Posted on 2020-09-03, 05:40

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It just tests the Videocard, and sometimes between quick mode switching the frequencys will go out of range, thats about it. Dont worry about it.

I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.

Reply 2 of 4, by darry

Posted on 2020-09-03, 05:47

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Does it stay stuck on the message, or does it eventually show a picture ?

Reply 3 of 4, by Doornkaat

Posted on 2020-09-03, 13:01

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It means the monitor / scaler can't handle the current video signal (size and/or refresh rate). You can try forcing another resloution or refresh rate. I would usually start with refresh rate since those cards (and their drivers) were designed with CRTs in mind. Those will usually be driven above 70Hz under Windows which is probably the maximum of the scaler.
If the message goes away more or less instantly the monitor is just confused about the change in signal and needs a moment to adapt.
Hope this helps! 🙂

Reply 4 of 4, by melbar

Posted on 2020-09-03, 17:17

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Thanks for the info. Now it's working. I've changed to safety mode and set 640x480 @256 colors.

Then it was correctly booting without this message.

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