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New SSD with Eyefinity problem

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Ok this is a weird problem. I decided to purchase one of the Intel X25-M 80GB SSDs to replace my older dual-SATA hard drives that were in RAID0. Before with my RAID configuration, I was able to set up Eyefinity no problem using the passive mini DP to VGA connector. With the old configuration, as Windows booted up, you would see the left (DVI) panel and center (VGA) panel receive signal first, and you'd sequentially see the right (DVI) monitor light up during the Welcome screen, and eventually as it boots into the desktop all 3 screens would be active.

The only thing that I've changed hardware wise was the SSD since then.

I've disabled the old RAID drives just to make sure there wasn't some kind of bizarre conflict going on between the SSD and old HDDs. Updated the BIOS to the latest for my motherboard (specs below), of course I've reinstalled the video card drivers several times (Cata 10.3). Nothing seems to allow the middle monitor to get detected. The system SEES a monitor present, but it doesn't know what to do with it. Windows doesn't know what model it is, and it doesn't display any of the resolutions that it's capable of. As a result, when I boot up using the 3x1 Display Group, I would see the two left and right DVI connected monitors light up as duplicates of each other, and the center (DP to VGA) monitor would just stay inactive. What do you think I'm missing here? I've been working on this for a couple days on and off and since then I've ordered up an active miniDP to DVI adapter but I just want to know why the old HDDs would work but not with the SSD.

Oh, and switching back to the old HDDs where Win7 is still installed allowed me to use Eyefinity again, so currently I'm just using the SSD as a storage hard drive (lol).

Computer Spec:

i7-930
EVGA x58 SLI LE mobo
6GB Corsair memory TR3X6G1600C8D
Diamond Radeon 5970
Intel X25-M 80GB SSD
3x Asus VW246 24'' monitors
 
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ok...I'm a little embarassed, but here's an update. I got it to work.

The "fix" was very simple.

Ready for it?

I unplugged and reinserted the mini displayport connector on the video card. The system was able to finally detect my middle monitor, and I was able to set up the 3x1 display group. Once I set my resolutions to 1900x1080 for each monitor, the rest behaved just as normal. Even after I shutdown and rebooted, the configuration remained intact. Still...I'm still baffled as to why the middle monitor could not be detected in the first place. Maybe the SSD is just too fast lol.
 
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