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2007-06-15 08:45:08
baggs
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Ok, this has been something ive put up with for ages but it bothers me as to why it doesnt work as i think it should.

I have an XFX7600GTxxx connected via DVi to an Xerox XA-19i but it runs it in analogue, you can force if into digital when you are booting windows. I have to use the screens menu system and select input to digital and sometimes my GFX then detects a digital monitor and i get the correct setup method inside the nVidia driver GUi.

But if i do nothing and let it boot, it just thinks its an analogue monitor, which it isnt. Ive tried many things to make the GFX detect thats its a digital monitor. Tho....if you dont have DVi on your GFX card the monitor will allow analogue signal using a VGA - DVi adaptor (the monitor uses DVi-a connector i think), but im connected via one of the two DVi ports on the card.

Ive tried switching to either ports, ive tried removing the monitor in device manager and adding the Xerox drivers in all different methods and procedures. Ive had useless information from XFX and Xerox, which was expected anyway. Its not the end of the world that i solve this problem but it does bother me why it doesnt run as i know it should do.

Any help, suggestions will be very appreciated.
2007-06-15 14:48:43
Twist
Too old to be doing this sh*t
+103|6994|Little blue planet, milky way
Had a close to similar problem. Funny thing was I got so sick of the Nvidia chipset card that I went out and bought a radeon chip based card... It worked like a charm..... Now the REAL kicker was than when I then later let the PC "inherit" my old Nvidia card from my primary PC, I just installed the default Nvidia driver, and the screen program from the radeon card just flicked the signal to digital like it was nothing. I'm not sure what the Radeon program was called, but it's one with a little red and white icon in the windows system tray.

So I guess it's really a driver/hardware issue. At least it was for me.  Just a guess... Can't hurt to look into it.
2007-06-18 06:01:45
baggs
Member
+732|6675
Ok i will look into that further but i assure you i have tried all kinda methods with the drivers, well the ones i know about. This is annoying me once again
2007-06-18 08:09:01
Agent_Dung_Bomb
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+302|7207|Salt Lake City

Twist wrote:

Had a close to similar problem. Funny thing was I got so sick of the Nvidia chipset card that I went out and bought a radeon chip based card... It worked like a charm..... Now the REAL kicker was than when I then later let the PC "inherit" my old Nvidia card from my primary PC, I just installed the default Nvidia driver, and the screen program from the radeon card just flicked the signal to digital like it was nothing. I'm not sure what the Radeon program was called, but it's one with a little red and white icon in the windows system tray.

So I guess it's really a driver/hardware issue. At least it was for me.  Just a guess... Can't hurt to look into it.
That would be the CCC (Catalyst Control Center).
2007-06-18 15:33:14
Masques
Black Panzer Party
+184|7193|Eastern PA
What kind of pin configuration does your DVI connector actually have? If uses the pin-out config of DVI-A then the output is analogue only.
2007-06-19 02:03:43
baggs
Member
+732|6675

Masques wrote:

What kind of pin configuration does your DVI connector actually have? If uses the pin-out config of DVI-A then the output is analogue only.
Yeah its DVI-A, but it has run in digital before now. When i read about the DVI-A connectors i understood that it was for the purposes of people that had no DVI connector on their GFX card and that DVI-A gave you the option of either digital or analogue. Even if you look at the diagrams for the different connectors it clearly states it does this, i just dont know why its in analogue

I did read, on some obscure coma inducing google searching, that it could be a problem with some chip on the screen itself and about how that should send the signal to the card on boot up. I saw that i could flash that chip on the screen but it gave me nowhere to download the file etc...

fuck man i wished id never posted cos im finding myself getting pissed off again about this stupid insignificant issue xD

im really grateful to the people who posted tho ^^

 

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