4 Aug 08, 02:15 PM
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 | spimmer | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Age: 24
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 Re: Annoying issue from some time now.
google threw up this. Quote:
Bad DVI on Viewsonic vx2025wm
Had a strange thing happen to me this morning with my Viewsonic vx2025wm. I was busy setting up my new Mac Pro and copying files from my old G4. Finally, I shutdown the G4 to take some of the old drives out so I could move them into the new computer (which I couldn’t do anyway, b/c the new computer is SATA and the old drives are ATA.) When I rebooted the screen no longer came up, saying no signal. I then checked the cables on another monitor and also checked the display output, all of which were fine. I then got an old SVGA cable and a VGA to DVI converter and tried the SVGA port on the Viewsonic. It worked, much to my relief and dismay. My first thought was the DVI port on the monitor had gone bad, so I called Viewsonic technical support. After being totally surprised that a real, live, human being speaking perfect English picked up the phone after only 2 menus AND less than 30 seconds of hold time, I got the following information from tech. support:
It seems the DVI port has a bug in it where it can “forget” that it is on. To fix it, you have to “reboot” the monitor. Here are the steps:
1. Power up the computer(s) with both the DVI and SVGA ports plugged into the computers (it can be done on one computer if you have a DVI and SVGA output)
2. After the boot up completely (i.e. login screen), power them both down again
3. Unplug the SVGA connector (leave the DVI alone)
4. Unplug the monitor and leave unplugged for 10+ seconds
5. Plug back in the monitor
6. Start the computer and the monitor should work
Hope this helps…
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