New Monitor, Old Computer Compatibility

I have a new(ish) Acer monitor. It's only 17.5" apparently, but its native resolution is something like 1600 x 900 and 32-bit colour, though I think it can handle lower resolution if need be.
I have a Sawtooth with a Rage 128 Pro graphics card.
Will the latter be able to handle the former? I have the DVI cablery necessary to connect them, I'm just concerned that Sawtooth's antiquated graphics card won't want anything to do with the new monitor (even if my Intel Mac Mini can set it to a lower resolution as desired).
Additionally, the Sawtooth will be running OS 9 and will need to boot off an external hard drive or install CD.

OK, thanks. The monitor worked after all. (Once I finally requisitioned it for the afternoon.)
Sawtooth is now running Mac OS 9.0.4 (found a copy on Macintosh Garden; my own CD is long since lost to the mists of time.)
Sawtooth briefly ran OSX 10.4.11 since I had to boot it off my external drive to reformat its internal drive (which was pulled from a PC; Windows NT format, and had some X86-friendly version of Linux on it). It was a somewhat aggravating experience trying to run Tiger on a 400 Mhz processor.
For some reason, it wouldn't boot off the install CD, though. (I booted it into OS 9.2.2 off the external drive and it mounted the install CD; it just wouldn't boot off it. Luckily, OS 9 doesn't need to boot off the CD to install.) I wonder why that is.
PS— Seems they redesigned the support forums. The old one was better.

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Hi,
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