4k surround help

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Banshee763

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Just finished up my 4k build a few days ago and have a question about how my displays boot / come on, on startup. Ever since day 1 if I have all 3 displays plugged in and start the machine they give me problems. One comes up and displays the bios message and after that they all go in sleep mode. Only fix I have found is unplugging one and turning the other one off. All of a sudden my main screen works. Next I plug #2 back in and it comes on. Then I power up #3 and I'm in business. I know it sounds confusing. Here is what I'm running.
3x dell up2414q monitors
2x 780ti
2 monitors run off displayport connections (one off each card) and the third is hdmi off of card 1.
I'm not running in sli mode. Any suggestions?

Note: monitors come on fine when computer wakes from sleep.
 
Are you using the NVIDIA 337.88 drivers? Don't use the 340.43 drivers - they seem to have removed the workarounds for the UP2414Q firmware bugs.
 
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First time trying to show an image on this site. Hope it works
 
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Sorry about the size. I'll mess with it when I get back to the desktop. And I am using the 337.88 drivers.
 
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Yes, make it smaller. Put that pic in MS Paint and resize it down to 25%.
 
I was expecting to see a Logitech G27 racing wheel. :)

As for your problem - no idea - these Dell monitors are very flaky. I sometimes get color zones when the monitor wakes from sleep (one side is AdobeRGB, the other sRGB) even with zone turned off. I have to power cycle the monitor.

Sometimes the right side of the image has banded lines - I also have to power cycle the monitor to get a correct image. (A00). I see reports that people who have A01 also have the same problem. I have never in my whole life seen a display with these kinds of problems, and is widely reported on Dell's own community forums.

Beautiful image when it works though...
 
Oh - there is one more thing you can try - instead of using NVIDIA Control Panel to set up multiple displays, right-click on your desktop wallpaper, and select "Screen Resolution" and set up your monitors (again) using that. With luck, Windows own interface will make it stick for next reboot.

I am assuming Windows 7.
 
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