A+ Tutorials The Display System Monitors and AdaptersA+ Tutorials - The Display System Monitors and Adapters
Before You Begin
Lesson 1: Monitors
Basic Monitor Operation
Other Considerations in Choosing Monitors
Power-Saving Features
Tuning the Monitor's Display
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Lesson 2: Display Adapters
Evolution of the Display Adapter
The Advent of Advanced Display Systems
High-Color, True-Color, Photorealism, and Multimedia Displays
Video Memory
Display Drivers
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Lesson 3: Choosing and Troubleshooting Display Systems
Troubleshooting Display Systems
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Tutorial Summary
Review
Early personal computers employed text-based displays, offering green, white, or amber characters against a black background. Today the average PC monitor can provide life-like colors and reproduce images of near-photographic quality. This dramatic change is the result of radical improvements in monitors and the display-adapter technology that drives them. This tutorial discusses how these devices work in unison to provide an acceptable display.