Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> [10-12-14 06:04]: > Dale wrote: > >meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> [10-12-14 05:04]: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. > >>>While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it > >>>worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the > >>>new rig. The new monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the > >>>Gateway EV910 hooked up, it doesn't even come out of power saver > >>>mode > >>>or show the BIOS screen that pops up when I first turn the puter on. > >>>It does work with the one I used to install with, EV700. So, I know > >>>the card didn't mess up in the switch. > >>> > >>>Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS > >>>issue. Is there some setting I have to change to be able to change > >>>monitors or am I just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up > >>>a > >>>different monitor that makes it not work? Both monitors support > >>>the > >>>same resolutions and I have switched these before with my old rig > >>>and > >>>not a single problem. > >>> > >>>What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers > >>>what > >>>monitor it is supposed to hook up to? > >>> > >>>Thoughts? Fixes would be nice. > >>> > >>>Dale > >>> > >>>:-) :-) > >>> > >>Hi Dale, > >> > >>just a shot in the dark (I did the same a few weeks ago): > >> > >>May the non-working monitor has more than one input jack, say > >>HDMI, DVI and analog. > >> > >>May be the monitor is set to await a signal at the HDMI input > >>and physically the signal is feed into the DVI input ? > >> > >>HTH! > >> > >>Best regards, > >>mcc > >> > > > >This is a older monitor. It only has the DB-15 connector and the > >power cord of course. This is funny tho. I booted the new puter with > >the EV700 monitor hooked up. I logged into KDE and once it was > >running, I cut off the power to the old monitor and unhooked the cable > >from the puter. I then hooked up the EV910 monitor and cut on its > >power. It works. Thing is, if I reboot, it does the same thing > >again. No BIOS screen or anything. Weird huh? > > > >I may cut everything off, remove the video card from the system and > >see if there is a button or battery on it. Maybe that will do > >something, reset if nothing else. For those keeping up, even the > >BIOS screen doesn't show up so this is not Gentoo, grub or anything. > >It's just weird. > > > >Open to other ideas tho. This is the weirdest thing I have seen in a > >while. > > > >Dale > > > >:-) :-) > > > > Update with some more info. This may be a monitor setting or > something. I took the video card out and put in a different card, ATI > actually. It works with the EV700 but not the EV910. No BIOS screen > on the EV910 but works on the EV700. > > Another thing I noticed, when I switch displays after logging in, the > EV910 is not as bright as usual. I'm not sure how that would matter > but thought I would mention it. > > Anybody ever seen this before? If it was the OS then that would be one > thing but not even the BIOS screen works. I thought that would even if > nothing else would. > > Thoughts? > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Hi Dale, I need a machine gun for all the shots in the dark... May be a bad cable??? If the jack has an "sense pin" to indicate the presence of a monitor to the graphics card and the cable to that pin (or the pin itself is broken...then the grpahics card thinks "No monitor, no need to generate a signal...). The pin layout is here: http://hep.fi.infn.it/CMS/power/old_site/Cables/50m/ctrl/A4602_DB15_pinout.jpg HTH mcc
