VGA to Serial problem

[dademurphy]

I've an old serial monitor that works fine on serial systems but when I bought an adaptor to connect a male serial to a female VGA, the monator wont work. I've tryed it on three differnt systems.
Can anyone help me?

[Mntsnow]

Does your adapter have "dip-switches" on it? If so are you sure you have them in the correct positions? Also if I remember correcctly most serial adapters only work at specific refreash rates are you sure your vga is set to a sync rate the adapter will be able to work with?

[dademurphy]

Thare are no dip switches on the adapter. How do you adjust the refresh rate?

[Mntsnow]

from within your operating system go into the video cards properties and from there you should be able to adjust your refresh rate

[dademurphy]

Sounds like a deal, Ill try it as soon as I get a chance and let you know how things went.

[dademurphy]

I went in under safe mode and changed refresh rate from unknowm to adapter defalt ( the only two options where shown). However when I pressd apply it said something about runninging in safe mode and all values will be reset to previos vlaues upon restarting.