Need help badly.

[akugami]

Any friend's with HDTV or LCD's you can try it on? Maybe with a different DVI cable as well for good measure.

 

[Matt2]

tried different DVI cable still no go, also tried to registry hack the refresh rate to 60hz and still no go, but im at a friends house posting while on the monitor. So I know it works. Since this problems occours acroos windows formats and its not a hardware issue could it be a setting in the bios that I have overlooked?

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: Matt2
However, if I restart the computer with both monitors plugged in, both monitors show the post, the windows splash screen, but as soon as it loads windows, only the CRT goes to the desktop. My LCD loses signal at the exact spot as it does when I just have the LCD hooked up.

Actually, I think you have to specifically enable secondary displays. It's not clear from your post whether you tried to do this, but I would recommend it as well as fiddling with the ATI DVI compatibility options while you've got both monitors physically connected. From what I can tell it's either a problem with your ATI card's DVI port or just an incompatibility between the ATI drivers and your LCD.

 

[trabpukcip]

Try this:

1. Boot with CRT
2. Install proper CRT driver
3. Reboot
4. Delete CRT driver from device manager
5. Shutdown
6. Connect LCD
7. Boot and Hope­­®

I think thats what I did the other day when an LCD would only go to safe mode while the CRT was fine booting normally.

BTW the CFX-3200-DR has problems with SATA drivers, the machine pauses a couple of times over a minute every two hours, read the previously mentioned DFI Street forum under ULi m5288.

I have a CFX-3200-DR, x1900xt's in crossfire with 6.5 Catalyst betas running on a Dell 2407wfp LCD, working fine (apart from the HDD lockups).

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: trabpukcip
Try this:

1. Boot with CRT
2. Install proper CRT driver
3. Reboot
4. Delete CRT driver from device manager
5. Shutdown
6. Connect LCD
7. Boot and Hope­­®

I think thats what I did the other day when an LCD would only go to safe mode while the CRT was fine booting normally.

BTW the CFX-3200-DR has problems with SATA drivers, the machine pauses a couple of times over a minute every two hours, read the previously mentioned DFI Street forum under ULi m5288.

I have a CFX-3200-DR, x1900xt's in crossfire with 6.5 Catalyst betas running on a Dell 2407wfp LCD, working fine (apart from the HDD lockups).

*Sigh*

Still didnt work.

I know the monitor is good because I unhooked it and walked across the street to my neighbor's house and it worked perfectly the first connected to a 7900GT.

The monitor does the same no signal thing when I try and boot it with my computer and in my office computer (P4 2.4b, 9700np).

I dont understand why it wont work on either of my computers, but it will work on my neighbor's computer. Could it be a compatibility issue with ATI cards? .... No because I've used this monitor for years with ATI cards from a 9700NP to an X800XL. IT even worked until I reformatted with this XTX.

I am so lost this is not funny.

I can boot into safe mode, I can boot into normal windows WITHOUT the video drivers for my XTX installed. I can even boot into VGA Mode through F8, but as soon as I try to change the screen resolution, refresh rate or color depth, the monitor goes blank and tells me there is no signal.

I have the correct monitor drivers installed, I've tried using the default monitor and plug an play monitor settings. I've tried four different driver sets for my XTX.

I am completely out of ideas. I am ready to go out and buy a brand new monitor, but I know this one works, so there is almost no point.

 

[Matt2]

bump

 

[akugami]

New Cat 6.5's. I went through the list and there are a ton of display fixes. Maybe this will solve your problem...maybe not.

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: akugami
New Cat 6.5's. I went through the list and there are a ton of display fixes. Maybe this will solve your problem...maybe not.

Nope. Didnt work.

This is freakin ridiculous.

I just flashed the BIOS on my Crossfire board hoping that would somehow magically fix the problem, but no go.

Can someone link my to the XTX BIOS file so I can try and reflash my XTX? This is kind of a far reach, but I am at the point where I have to try anything.

 

[akugami]

http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/

Pretty much every ATI video card bios that you can find on the net.

 

[nullpointerus]

Did you try this or not?

Originally posted by: nullpointerus

Originally posted by: Matt2
However, if I restart the computer with both monitors plugged in, both monitors show the post, the windows splash screen, but as soon as it loads windows, only the CRT goes to the desktop. My LCD loses signal at the exact spot as it does when I just have the LCD hooked up.

Actually, I think you have to specifically enable secondary displays. It's not clear from your post whether you tried to do this, but I would recommend it as well as fiddling with the ATI DVI compatibility options while you've got both monitors physically connected. From what I can tell it's either a problem with your ATI card's DVI port or just an incompatibility between the ATI drivers and your LCD.

 

[Matt2]

Ok I have now discovered that If I boot up on my friends LCD and then swith my monitor to the slot that his LCD was plugged into it works fine but will not keep signal booting to windows by its self? WT!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[Matt2]

bump for thoughts

 

[Tegeril]

Replace the LCD. All tests thus far have one faulty component in question, the LCD. Simply because it works on some other graphics cards is meaningless. Have you tried it on another X1900XTX?

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: Tegeril
Replace the LCD. All tests thus far have one faulty component in question, the LCD. Simply because it works on some other graphics cards is meaningless. Have you tried it on another X1900XTX?

I am planning on replacing the monitor. I really like the 20.1 inch widescreen from Viewsonic, but I am afraid that this is some weird compatibility issue between Viewsonic and ATI. No, I have not tried a different XTX, but the monitor will work on a 7900GT, but also doesnt work on a completely different machine running a P4 2.4 and a Radeon 9700

 

[rasczak]

your monitor probably has a default resolution that it cannot go under. try to set your monitor to the default resolution or higher.

also have you tried booting into safe mode with standard vga drivers to rule out the monitor drivers and CAT's?

 

[clarkmo]

Do you get to a logon screen or does your pc boot to the desktop? Above poster may have the right idea, particularly if you stop at the logon screed. You have a default boot resolution and possibly a different one foe the logon screen. Check your monitor .inf for supported resolutions, then check your manual. I can only guess the .inf lists a resolution at the worng frequency. This can be manually edited to one that is compatible with your monitor. Or you can use the .inf for a different but similiar model, like the Sony crt widescreen. That worked for my 32" lcd which did not have a monitor driver, but I actually ended up using an LG widescreen lcd driver for better compatibility. I just had to make sure I never picked some of the high resolution/refresh rate that the Sony was capable of.
If you are booting to a logon screen, try changing that so you bypass logon and go straight to the desktop. We know it can work at your current desktop resolution/referesh from your experimentation.

 

[nitromullet]

You try installing the driver for the monitor?

http://www.viewsonic.com/support/drivers/drivers.cfm?category=1&formName=monitor