OblivionSHO Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 Hello, I am not sure where I should post this question, but I guess I will put it here. Mods, move it if you feel the need. Anyway, I won a 20 inch LCD Mac Cinema display from a local computer shop yesterday. I bought an ADC-DVI adapter and plugged it into my PC (as I do not have a Macintosh at home.) Everything works great in Windows, but my BIOS screens, and loading Windows XP screens do not come up at all. I am sure there is no way to fix this, but I would like to know why it does this. Do you guys have any ideas? ~OblivionSHO~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougkinzinger Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 Could be a few things: 1) Your video card may not pump out information via DVI connector until the drivers load (in Windows). Some older GeForce cards are like this (pre-GF4). 2) Could be that the Apple display doesn't like the resolution of your BIOS or other boot screens. I'll bet it's #1 --- can you try another monitor on the DVI port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblivionSHO Posted May 6, 2004 Author Share Posted May 6, 2004 Doug, Thank you for your quick reply. The video card I am using is an ATI Radeon 9800XT, so maybe it is an incompatibility with this card. I did try a friend's Viewsonic VP181b Flat panel via the DVI port and it worked okay. I also tried hooking it up to his ATI 9700 Pro with the same result. ~OblivionSHO~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougkinzinger Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 Ah. I've seen something similar on some older Sun-branded Sony Trinitron monitors. They just don't like the old DOS resolution (720x400 and such) but work great within Windows. I think that you'll probably just have to live with it (shouldn't be that big of a deal with as nice of a monitor that is!) Congrats on winning it! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad345zAdZ0d9_ Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 mate, read some of the reviews here http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...906254?v=glance its a common problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblivionSHO Posted May 6, 2004 Author Share Posted May 6, 2004 Yeah, I am sure you are probably right. And since it was not designed to connect to a PC, I should be glad that it works at all. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblivionSHO Posted May 6, 2004 Author Share Posted May 6, 2004 Thanks for the link Static. And BTW, I couldn't agree with your signature more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyT Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 I just saw that Amazon link StaticFish posted. "List Price:$2,000.00 Price: $1,999.99 You Save: $0.01 ( 0%)" Isn't that funny to say: You save 1 cent on $2000? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad345zAdZ0d9_ Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 I saw that too... an expesnive thing though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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