Can't get PC DVI to work with my display?

DavidJones4 · Post by **DavidJones4** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:58 pm

Just a FYI, my LCD is a Acer 26inch 1920X1200 PC monitor{IPS panel}.
I have a DVI-I port on my x800gt and my supplied DVI cable is DVI-D, so I assume my LCD's input port is also DVI-D.
I'll have a fiddle and see what happens.

DavidJones4 · Post by **DavidJones4** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:47 pm

Weird.....when hooked up by VGA, I can access my OSD and toggle between input signals{VGA/DVI}, but when I select digital, it no signals and auto-adjusts back to VGA.
I then connected both cables to the LCD, but this time I couldn't select digital, it just kept cycling thru the options of analogue or digital.

regman · Post by **regman** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:19 am

There must be some trick to this DVI stuff. Like many here I have a 2005 computer with a Viewsonics Monitor and it came with a DVI cable. My video card also had DVI and SGA output as well. I could never get the DVI to work. For my laptop I use the VGA into the plasma when I want to do a power point or something.

Richard · Post by **Richard** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:11 pm

Have you tried contacting Acer? Firmware?

DavidJones4 · Post by **DavidJones4** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:24 pm

Richard wrote:Have you tried contacting Acer? Firmware?

I'll be getting a new PC soon, so I'll sort it all out then

VGA's quality is effectively perfect anyway, I dled some WM9 HD vids, and some HD movie trailers and they look fantastic!!
DVD's look great, heaps better than SDTV.

DavidJones4 · Post by **DavidJones4** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:51 pm

UPDATE.
So I updated my GPU drivers and I managed to get the DVI cable to work....that said, I don't think the drivers made a difference.
When using VGA, I'm greeted with a 800x600 bios screen, well on DVI, that screen is bypassed and I go directly to my windows login screen at 1920x1200, but I still had to wait x amount of seconds viewing a blank screen, so if you're in the same boat as me, give the PC a chance to reach your logon screen.
So far so good, though I can't say I can notice any difference using DVI, but now that it's connected, it may as well stay.