Westy Weirdness with Deviant DVI Detection

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ashmedai

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I just finished building a new rig, and I hooked it up to my Westinghouse 37" to start installing things. It detected a signal on DVI2 when I started up the computer, but then changed its mind a second later and displayed a DVI2 - No Signal message. First thought, I had a missed connection or bad part...but no, the computer works quite normally on a different display.

Has anyone seen this kind of behavior from their Westy? Any ideas what could be causing it and/or how to make it behave? I assume there's a way to manually set the input through the menus, but I rather liked the auto-detect behavior. (I haven't tried that yet...one because it's still installing things, two because I'm a bit paranoid that it still won't show up if I override the auto-detect...)
 
Did you try DVI-1? IIRC I remember people talking about Westy making the SE's without the DVI-2 port because the 2nd port was sharing with the other. Also it might be that only DVI 1 is designed for use for a PC. I missed the entire Westy craze myself... Didn't have enough money for one until they were all gone. :(
 
I did, once I found a longer cable. Same result. I'd been using DVI-2 without any trouble on the other computer (7800GTX vs 8800GTX, incidentally).
 
ashmedai said:
I did, once I found a longer cable. Same result. I'd been using DVI-2 without any trouble on the other computer (7800GTX vs 8800GTX, incidentally).
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Did you retry it on the one that worked? Maybe use the same DVI cable as on the old one? I would say if it works with the other computer and doesnt with the same cable on that one.. Either the DVI port on the card is borked, or maybe just a driver issue.
 
Still no clue what was causing this, but it worked once the OS & drivers were installed. :confused:
 
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