Monitor Convergence/Test Pattern Generator

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Monitor Convergence/Test Pattern Generator

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Hey all,

Can you converge a monitor without a test pattern generator? The blues and reds are off on my Donkey Kong.

Are there test pattern generators available locally?
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Hammerhead wrote:Hey all,

Can you converge a monitor without a test pattern generator? The blues and reds are off on my Donkey Kong.

Are there test pattern generators available locally?
I do it with just the color bars available on many games... not as accurate as the test pattern though.

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I fiddled with it and got things lined up pretty well....then I lost all the red about three weeks later.
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Hammerhead wrote:I fiddled with it and got things lined up pretty well....then I lost all the red about three weeks later.
No red gun whatsoever?

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Dave W. wrote:
Hammerhead wrote:I fiddled with it and got things lined up pretty well....then I lost all the red about three weeks later.
No red gun whatsoever?
Nada. I keep planning to take the monitor out and get it looked at, yet there it still sits, just a green and blue Kong.
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do you have convergence strips?
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