Apple Cinema Display on a PC


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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~

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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?

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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~

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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

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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.

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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

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