http://www.daniweb.com/forums en-US Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:49:21 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/myimages/misc/rss.jpg http://www.daniweb.com/forums http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread132744.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:29:36 GMT just baught two new pci-e crossfire cards they are both crossfire 4850's

ok, so i installed them and it enables crossfire and i have no options, not even a place for options for crossfire

i was wondering if i did anything wrong
steps

installed drivers
restarted
went into catalyst control center and it says its enabled, but thats it, nothing else, it also shows two gpu's in the device manager

Mobo is MSI-k9a2cf ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards Merlin33069 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread132744.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread132350.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:46:53 GMT Where can I get a antena for a Samsung Syncmaster 940mw? Got a link? Thanks Where can I get a antena for a Samsung Syncmaster 940mw? Got a link? Thanks ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards dgh436 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread132350.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131986.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:50:05 GMT This started this morning. I was using it fine last night, and turned it off for the night. This morning I went to turn it on, and the monitor wouldn't display anything. The rest of the computer works fine I'm pretty sure.... but the orange LED is lightened up, not the green. I tried a different monitor, same thing.

I then proceeded to remove the dust from the grapghics card, and form the slot. Still nothing. I had a problem like this about a year ago, so I changed the slot for the grapghics card, (the slot was broken last time). Still nothing. So, I dunno what to do now. Both monitors work, as I plugged them into my laptop, and they display the laptop screen. I also checked the outside cables.

Please help.

Thanks in advance. ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards sputniks http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131986.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131782.html Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:06:20 GMT ok right now I have one flat panel in one dvi port and my tv in the s-video and it works great. The other dvi port is converted to vga so i can plug it into a projector but i don't know how to set up the settings... ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards Zyan17 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131782.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131494.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:47:02 GMT Hello,

I thought I would pass this info along in case anybody comes across a similar problem. About a month ago when I turned on my LCD Monitor it was all fuzzy and the images were all distorted. A week or so later it started shaking and I couldn't even look at the screen. Then I turned it on a week after that and it was crystal clear but then today it started to become fuzzy again. :(

I searched around on the web and found somebody mentioning the power source. I live in south Florida and we do get power surges almost daily. It seemed too good to be true but I decided to try it so I unplugged my monitor from my surge protector and plugged it into another outlet and BAM!!!!!! Crytal clear and like brand new!

It must have been the surge protector.

So if you have a fuzzy monitor one thing you CAN TRY is to change the power source or outlet. It worked for me and saved me a few hundred dollars.

KC ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards tazcarm http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131494.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131475.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:35:03 GMT Hey guys, I'm heading back to university to complete a masters course which requires an extreme amount of programming. Something which I'm looking forward to!

Last year I spent most of my time down the labs with a dual screen setup which meant that the IDE could be displayed on one of the monitors whilst the other could be used for the output.

Could anyone name a few great makes. Mother just had a samsung die on her, so don't know whether thats a great choice after all? I'm a big Sony fan but lately they don't seem to impress me much when it comes to design, and overall look of their monitors.

A 19" or something bigger would be nice.

Budget: I'm settling for £300 for the two monitors, the less the better but I wouldnt want to compromise the performance of the screens.

Thanks guys. ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards Acidburn http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131475.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131203.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:14:15 GMT hi there, I have an old cpu with a mda video card, now the monitor doesnt work.... I need to build a converter to use any kind of newer generation monitor (cga, vga, svga etc...) can somebody help me?? hi there, I have an old cpu with a mda video card, now the monitor doesnt work.... I need to build a converter to use any kind of newer generation monitor (cga, vga, svga etc...)

can somebody help me?? ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards o_ugalde http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131203.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131114.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:14:06 GMT Hello all, I am new to the site and it looks great so far. I am wondering if anyone knows what kind of difference it would make if i overclocked my vid. card it is an nvidia fx5600 128mb. i am laggin horribly trying to play a game called custom play golf 2. Any replys will be apprciated. thnx Hello all, I am new to the site and it looks great so far. I am wondering if anyone knows what kind of difference it would make if i overclocked my vid. card it is an nvidia fx5600 128mb. i am laggin horribly trying to play a game called custom play golf 2. Any replys will be apprciated. thnx ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards alnightlng http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131114.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131025.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:54:20 GMT I have a 30" LCD monitor and when i run it at a non native resolution for example 1440x900, 1680x1050 or 1920x1200 the monitor display looks blurry and out of focus. For some odd reason 1280x800 resolution looks fine. I had 2 previous LCD Monitors before and when i ran them at any non native resolutions, the display looked fine. Does anyone have a 30" LCD Monitor and does it still look good at non native resolutions? ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards flashvee http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread131025.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130738.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:23:33 GMT I have a Sceptre monitor with built in speakers. I have never gotten them to work. Any ideas? I have a Sceptre monitor with built in speakers. I have never gotten them to work. Any ideas? ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards kfishnrod http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130738.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130695.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:11:13 GMT Greetings to all:
Being a Network Eng, my knowlege base of graphics cards, monitors and such is rather 'functional' at best. So when my daughter has now become ennamored with flight sims, I need some help. Here is the system config:

2.4 ghz Intel Dual Core, P35 Intel MB, 3 Gig DDR2 RAM (dual), XFX 8800 GTS "Alphpa Dog" VC, 22" Chimei FS monitor running at 1400x1050x32x75 hz (native)

How does the monitor's resolution affect the frame pre second (FPS) of the app? And the temp of the video card? (At the above settings, after 1 hr of solid play, the core temp of the card is 53c.)

Thanks for the assistance,

doug ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards drmaze http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130695.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130563.html Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:50:20 GMT Hello all!

I came across this forum because it had several similar problems. I registered because it's got thousands of IT professionals! Maybe you can help me.

I've got a few PCs I am trying to get going. I am having this weird problem on 2 of them, and was with a thrid, but the 3rd stopped responding at all, so I will focus on the two I am still working on.

PC #1
Athlon XP 2200+ 256 mb RAM, integrated graphics with an AGP slot as well. Currently the video card is an nVidia TNT2 with 32 mb of RAM.
Windows 2000 OS, still a fresh install

PC #2
Intel Celeron 500 mhz, 192 mb RAM, AGP slot with an nVidia TNT2 ultra with 32 mb RAM (i think its an ultra, but Im not sure)
Windows 2000, still a fresh install

Rack
Belkin Omniview 8 port KVM switch. This is the older model that has a serial port that switched as well.
Acer 17" monitor that will do 1280x1024
PS2 keyboard and mouse
APC battery backup (3U, requires 20 amp circuit and plug)

Aux equipment
Sony Trinitron 19" monitor that will do 1280x1024
USB mouse
USB extension cables
USB hubs
network connected to the 'net

Problem with PC #1
It will boot into windows normally with integrated graphics however, it will not auto update drivers for integrated graphics. I don't really want to use the integrated graphics in the long term, so I'd like to use the AGP slot. (update - for some reason it will boot fine with integrated graphics now, but did not originally)
The PC originally had an nVidia Vanta of some kind in it. When I configured the BIOS to use the add on VGA card, windows would boot normally up until approximately the "preparing network connectins" portion in that box, at which point the PC would freeze, or the screen would go blank. (Freeze with the integrated graphics, blank with the add on). If it would go blank, both the monitor and the KVM switch would register that there was a signal. i confirmed this with the Sony monitor as well.
If I pressed F8 and went into VGA mode, the system would boot and I could install programs and what have you.
While in VGA mode I tried to install drivers for the nvidia video card and the setup would tell me that it could not find a device that the drivers would work for. That is with either card being dominant.
I have since put in two other video cards. A geforce 1 that apparantly does not work (it used to, that's why I tried it. this is its first failure), and now the TNT2. The TNT2 will allow the PC to boot into windows normally. I even changed the screen res to 1024x768. At which point the screen started having artifacts: the mouse cursor did not move correctly, and there were cursors all over the screen. I rebooted and got the same. I have not gone into VGA mode with this card as of yet.
I started the install of the OS on this machine last night or the night before. Last night I updated it via windows update, and I installed pcAnywhere. THe OS is now up to date according to Microsoft. I have also installed DirectX 9c.
When the PC boots into a blank screen I am unable to find the host that I started with pcAnywhere. This seems to indicate that the PC is not just putting out a signal that the monitor can't displa, but htat it is actually frozen. HOWEVER, when I boot into VGA mode I have recently been getting an error from pcAnywhere that says an unknow error has occured with pcAnywhere. Yet the host works normally.

PC #2
I was suprised to find a frech blank install of windows 2000 on this PC the other day. I had thought it was a configured and working box. I used to use this box years ago as a downloader in a remote location.
This machine is having a similar problem to the one above.
I continued witht he install on windows, updating all the security fixes and installing directx. This PC will boot into VGA mode fine. From within it, I have control and the pcAnywhere host works fine.
I ran the nVidia driver setup and it could not find the video card. This motherboard does not have integrated video. At first I thought that this might be due to the VGA mode I was running in. I have not tried to install the drivers in safe mode yet.
This PC will boot directly into a blank screen if left alone, the same as the other one. It's pcAnywhere host will not come up during this state.
I have not tried to swap out another video card into this system yet. I did upgrade its RAM from 64 mb (that didnt change this problem).

My thoughts:
I installed pcAnywhere on these machines to bypass any monitor issues, since the only common factor to these two machines (and a third that was having similar problems) was the video output path. I am not able to see the hosts when the PCs boot up into blank screens.
I have tried using the KVM switch AND the Sony monitor and get the same results.
I have two other servers hooked up to the KVM switch that do not have a problem with it. They are both Dell power edge's (2450 and 2500)
The power for all of this equipment comes from a single circuit and through the APC battery backup (the sony monitor is not through the battery backup).
PC #1 does not retain its CMOS information well after it has been unplugged.
The filesystem on both machines is FAT32.
I have updated drivers via windows update on PC #1 for those devices that windows did not auto detect, but I have not downloaded discrete drivers from the manufacturer's website.
PC#2 is so old I do not think that this would apply after all of the updates over the web.
I have not tried removing the discrete graphics card from PC #1.

Cabling
Since the devices operate fine in reduced software modes, I do not think that cabling is an issue.
I thought that maybe the cheaper nonshielded cables of the KVM switch were at fault, but the Sony has a gold plated shielded cable.

Sources:
PC #1 was pulled out of a dumpster at work. It did not have an OS, but so far it runs fine (except for the current problem). I might have swapped out the HDD, I don't recall.
PC #2 was bought from a friend of mine several years ago. I used it extensively for a time, but it has been sitting for a bit.
PC #3 was given to my through a friend a year and a half or so ago. This PC has been up and running several times since I got it, but I dont use it regularly.

Possible solutions
I think I will have to look into drivers for the motherboard of PC #1.
I did the installs on these machines a little differently than I normally do. I normally yank the HDDs, dump a bunch of stuff on them, and then let it install the OS form the HDD. PC #1's OS was installed off of the CD, and I hacked together some files onto a thumbdrive and later used a USB key to get it on the net. PC#2 had most of an install already on there and I just went with it.

If you have any suggestions, I would like to hear them. I have already ran these problems by two other techs and we've not come up with anything that has worked. I find it hard to believe that these disparete sets of hardware have almost the exact same problem, from what seems like totally different reasons. This is weird, even accounting for the normal level of weirdness that attaches itself to me. ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards allanonmage http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130563.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130670.html Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:49:17 GMT ok for some reason this game lags for me. idk what my ram is but i know i have a good graphics card because i cud play cod4 on it online perfectly with barely any lag(it was at lowest graphics quality btw). but when i play rct3 it lags. i can record vids with it and when i watch em theres no lag... ok for some reason this game lags for me. idk what my ram is but i know i have a good graphics card because i cud play cod4 on it online perfectly with barely any lag(it was at lowest graphics quality btw). but when i play rct3 it lags. i can record vids with it and when i watch em theres no lag but when i play the game it sometimes lags. its usually when water splashes or a rollercoaster crashes. is this normal? and i did the detect thing for the graphics in the options and i have it how it set it automatically but it still lags a little. maybe i need to turn trend micro security off or something? ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards bojadada http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130670.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130467.html Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:58:14 GMT When I press the power button, the screen turns on and shows me the Gateway logo along with two FN options - the BIOS and the Setup - both of which need to be chosen quickly. The screen immediately goes black. The laptop sounds like it is running, but it will turn on and off by the power button... When I press the power button, the screen turns on and shows me the Gateway logo along with two FN options - the BIOS and the Setup - both of which need to be chosen quickly. The screen immediately goes black. The laptop sounds like it is running, but it will turn on and off by the power button very easily - the OS doesn't seem like it's booting up at all. I can go into either the BIOS or the Setup, so I don't think it's a screen issue. I can navigate within each option and change settings if necessary.

Is this a graphics card issue? And if so, sine the card is integrated into the system - the owner of the laptop would need to buy a new laptop?

Thanks! ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards carolyncbuckley http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130467.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130278.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:24:13 GMT When I switch on my monitor , I am being able to see some spark inside the monitor and smokes are coming out , can I do something to fix it or I need to get a new monitor ? When I switch on my monitor , I am being able to see some spark inside the monitor and smokes are coming out , can I do something to fix it or I need to get a new monitor ? ]]> Monitors, Displays and Video Cards ithelp http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130278.html