CompuServe Messages

Thanks for the reply Paul. I'm on my way back to work now and I'll give your suggestions a try. When I boot up with my NTSC monitor powered on I can hear it sync up with the targa board as the computer loads its startup configuration, 3DS loads fine and runs OK. In the materials editor I see that the render frambuffer button has come up as an option, but when I use it the "image rendering" message appears for a second or two and then…nothing appears in the monitor. I'm real green at this, for all I know I've not set or switched correctly any of the 6 or 8 options, for instance it took me a while to realize my monitor had 4 possible input selections. (g) Am I correct in assuming that if I use a nine pin RGB input into my monitor, that it doesn't matter if I've set the output mode switches on the Targa+ to component or composite? Any ideas if I should set my monitor to digital or analog in? When you use this boot up config you sent me and you turn your T+ monitor on, what do you see? A jerking, jiggling blue screen, a stable blue screen, or a stable grey screen? If you choose to play a flic on the frame buffer monitor to output to tape, how do you set 3DS up to do it? I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again, Carlton