23" Monitor with Older Macs

I am posting this here in case anybody needs help in the future.
I just got a 23" HD monitor to use with an older Quicksilver 867 mhz G4 (not a dual one, from 2001). I had to install a new graphics card - I used the ATI Radeon 9200 which is compatible with the older G4's and also works with OS 10.2.8. At first the monitor did not work, unless it was mirrored with the older monitor, and it was at a poor resolution, so I had to remove the original graphics card (which was acting as the default and preventing the new monitor from working), and then reset the PRAM.
As soon as I did all that, it worked. Since the ATI cards have DVI ports, I did not need to use an additional adapter cable.
Quicksilver G4 867 Mhz Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Hi there, Aperture 2.0runs quite well on my machine, although I've got the X800 card in it. After reading someone's post about the Quad 3 GHz w 8 core's NEVER showing a "loading" in 20 MB RAW files (and I tested this at the Apple store, I just had to upgrade to the new 8-core. Any week now...
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