Re: LCD Display Question


"BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Red Squirrel typed on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:15:46 GMT:
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:000101c99f46$a116e890
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Your computer is confused at boot. It sees two video cards, one for
the VGA and one for the DVI. This is normal.

Not sure why it isn't outputting correctly, but I'd look in the BIOS
for settings of what the default primary output is.


The display adapter has two DVI outputs, not one of each type. Both
of which are working. The problem is at the monitor end - it can
only display BIOS input if I feed it into the monitor's VGA input.
I can use either DVI output from the card but they both exhibit the
same problem.

--
Red Squirrel

Well I know what both of you are saying. But I believe you are missing
Tom's point. As the problem isn't the monitor per se, but on the BIOS
side. As the BIOS has to choose which output to use at boot and it picks
the VGA one. So what you need to do is to go into the BIOS Setup and tell
it to not to use the VGA output as the default, but the DVI one instead.

The only thing we don't know, is all BIOS are different. And there is a
chance that it won't allow you to make this choice. Although I would say
the odds are great it would let you do so. If it doesn't, then the only
hope is looking for a newer BIOS version for your computer. Although many
people have been known to ruin their computers by a failed BIOS install
(flashing). It never happened to me yet, but it has been known to happen.

Thats not what the OP is saying at all and I believe Tom is confused. What
the Op is saying is that his card doesn't have a VGA port on it HOWEVER if
he connects the onboard video missing out the card then he sees the boot
messages when he then connects the card to the monitor it's almost as if
(but its not) the respnce time of the monitor when connected to the DVI
port on the card is to slow and the messages dissapear before the monitor
catches up. .... well i think thats what he was trying to say


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