Hoping someone could give me some ideas as I have been racking my brain on this one and so far nVidia and Asus support have nothing.
Built a PC for my son to run his VR kit (HTC Vive) gave him my current computer parts and rebuilt/upgraded mine.
It's an Intel 6700k, 8GB Corsair, SSD drive and a WD spindle drive. The video is ASUS STRIX-GTX980-DC20C-4GD5. It's got 3 Displayport, 1 HDMI and 1 DVI port. He has 2 older monitors that support DVI and VGA. So, we have 1 monitor in the DVI port and that works fine. His VR is taking up the HDMI port and works fine. However, we can not get the 2nd monitor to work using an adapter from DP to DVI. I first bought a passive one because I thought the card could support DP++ but in CHATTING with nVidia they said I needed an ACTIVE one, so I bought that. However, regardless of which one I use I can't get a signal on the monitor. I know the monitor works because if I switch the actual DVI port to either of them they work fine. I know the DP ports work because I was using 2 of the ports for my monitors (which can go natively to DP) and this is with trying first a passive adapter and then an active one. Reboots, trying to detect the monitor, etc. and it does not see/get a signal from the adapter.
Any thoughts? nVidia and Asus were not able to give me any answers.
Thanks!!!
--Jeff
Built a PC for my son to run his VR kit (HTC Vive) gave him my current computer parts and rebuilt/upgraded mine.
It's an Intel 6700k, 8GB Corsair, SSD drive and a WD spindle drive. The video is ASUS STRIX-GTX980-DC20C-4GD5. It's got 3 Displayport, 1 HDMI and 1 DVI port. He has 2 older monitors that support DVI and VGA. So, we have 1 monitor in the DVI port and that works fine. His VR is taking up the HDMI port and works fine. However, we can not get the 2nd monitor to work using an adapter from DP to DVI. I first bought a passive one because I thought the card could support DP++ but in CHATTING with nVidia they said I needed an ACTIVE one, so I bought that. However, regardless of which one I use I can't get a signal on the monitor. I know the monitor works because if I switch the actual DVI port to either of them they work fine. I know the DP ports work because I was using 2 of the ports for my monitors (which can go natively to DP) and this is with trying first a passive adapter and then an active one. Reboots, trying to detect the monitor, etc. and it does not see/get a signal from the adapter.
Any thoughts? nVidia and Asus were not able to give me any answers.
Thanks!!!
--Jeff