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From: Don on 15 Apr 2008 13:58
Here's my problem. I'm running XP Pro (latest updates) and I have a
Viewsonic VP2330wb flat panel monitor, and a ATI X1600 (HIS Variant)
video card. Everything works fine when using the VGA cable. But when I
try using the DVI cable the following happens. I power up the machine
and the monitor displays a message that it is in DVI-D mode. I can see
the Intel boot screen and the Windows startup screen. But it doesn't
get to the login screen. The monitor loses the video signal and shuts
off. I am running the latest version of the ATI Catalyst Control Center
and video driver. Has anyone come across this situation and were you
able to fix it? If so, how? DVI works if I use the generic Windows
display driver.

Thanks for any help.
From: Flasherly on 16 Apr 2008 02:23
On Apr 15, 1:58 pm, Don <nntp.20.donald2...(a)spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> Here's my problem. I'm running XP Pro (latest updates) and I have a
> Viewsonic VP2330wb flat panel monitor, and a ATI X1600 (HIS Variant)
> video card. Everything works fine when using the VGA cable. But when I
> try using the DVI cable the following happens. I power up the machine
> and the monitor displays a message that it is in DVI-D mode. I can see
> the Intel boot screen and the Windows startup screen. But it doesn't
> get to the login screen. The monitor loses the video signal and shuts
> off. I am running the latest version of the ATI Catalyst Control Center
> and video driver. Has anyone come across this situation and were you
> able to fix it? If so, how? DVI works if I use the generic Windows
> display driver.
>
> Thanks for any help.

I'm running both 32" Syntax and NEC 37" on my computers, avoiding DVI
variant cables while able to get what I need from VGA connections.
The place to get into it, possibly, is -
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.tech.hdtv/topics?lnk=sg

Btw & fwiw - I've older AGP ATI Radeon cards, which I've switched to
OMEGA drivers for native 1360x758, at least with this one, the 32".
Nice - within specs. Don't know if it'll do help with your connection,
tho.

30068501 10/16/07 Radeon Omega Drivers 3.8.413
From: Paul on 16 Apr 2008 03:42
Don wrote:
> Here's my problem. I'm running XP Pro (latest updates) and I have a
> Viewsonic VP2330wb flat panel monitor, and a ATI X1600 (HIS Variant)
> video card. Everything works fine when using the VGA cable. But when I
> try using the DVI cable the following happens. I power up the machine
> and the monitor displays a message that it is in DVI-D mode. I can see
> the Intel boot screen and the Windows startup screen. But it doesn't
> get to the login screen. The monitor loses the video signal and shuts
> off. I am running the latest version of the ATI Catalyst Control Center
> and video driver. Has anyone come across this situation and were you
> able to fix it? If so, how? DVI works if I use the generic Windows
> display driver.
>
> Thanks for any help.

Viewsonic doesn't offer anything in the way of real technical detail about
their monitor.

My guess would be, the video card is producing a signal which the
monitor doesn't like. But at least on my monitor, when that happens,
the OSD built into the monitor pops up, and says "Out of range!".

I notice in the Viewsonic manual, the options for input source are
"D-Sub", "DVI-A", and "DVI-D". Perhaps you could try selecting
"DVI-A" and pick off the analog signal on the DVI-I connector.
It could be that the ATI card has decided to drive DVI-A on the
cable, and disable the digital portion, when the Windows
video card driver loads.

If the previous suggestion works, it would suggest that using a
cable known to only carry DVI-D, might force the issue. With a
DVI-D only cable, there would be no 75 ohm loads on RGB on the
analog portion of the ATI card DVI-I connector, which might
cause the video card to stick with DVI-D output.

In terms of resolution and refresh, the monitor and computer
communicate via a serial link. The serial link is referred to as
DDC. The information it carries, is Plug and Play information
in the form of a block of data called EDID.

You can view the EDID in your working interconnect case, with
this utility. I'm recommending this utility, purely as a way
to verify that the EDID is present on both the VGA and the
DVI interfaces of the monitor.

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm

In addition to the (automated) Plug and Play info, you can also install
a "monitor driver". The general reason for providing these, is to
give an ICM (integrated color management) file. Something that perhaps
Photoshop might use for bringing colors into line, more or less. A
monitor calibration tool (Spyder etc), would be used to generate a
file that exactly compensates for color deficiencies, but the ICM
file should take care of the basic color mismatch.

But for many users, their reason for downloading the monitor driver,
is because the INF file in the monitor driver, includes a registry
entry. In your case, the registry entry might mention 1920x1200 @ 60Hz
or whatever, as the max resolution.

The actual files are tiny, and I think for my monitor, the whole
monitor driver package was 6KB. Viewsonic has decided to bundle all
their monitors into an Installshield, at over 2MB. While I'd like to
look at the INF, the Installshield makes that a problem. You can try
installing this, as a means of supplementing the EDID coming across
the cable.

http://www.viewsonic.com/support/drivers/drivers.cfm?category=1&formName=monitor

I suspect, selecting DVI-A in the OSD, will solve the immediate problem.
The video card may be confused over whether it should be driving
both the DVI-A and DVI-D pins of the DVI-I connector. And I don't
really know what the correct policy is, because on the monitor end,
the monitor itself could be confused about which of the interfaces
to select automatically when present.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvi

HTH,
Paul
From: Don on 16 Apr 2008 09:29
Paul wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> Here's my problem. I'm running XP Pro (latest updates) and I have a
>> Viewsonic VP2330wb flat panel monitor, and a ATI X1600 (HIS Variant)
>> video card. Everything works fine when using the VGA cable. But when
>> I try using the DVI cable the following happens. I power up the
>> machine and the monitor displays a message that it is in DVI-D mode.
>> I can see the Intel boot screen and the Windows startup screen. But
>> it doesn't get to the login screen. The monitor loses the video
>> signal and shuts off. I am running the latest version of the ATI
>> Catalyst Control Center and video driver. Has anyone come across this
>> situation and were you able to fix it? If so, how? DVI works if I
>> use the generic Windows display driver.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>
> Viewsonic doesn't offer anything in the way of real technical detail about
> their monitor.
>
> My guess would be, the video card is producing a signal which the
> monitor doesn't like. But at least on my monitor, when that happens,
> the OSD built into the monitor pops up, and says "Out of range!".
>
> I notice in the Viewsonic manual, the options for input source are
> "D-Sub", "DVI-A", and "DVI-D". Perhaps you could try selecting
> "DVI-A" and pick off the analog signal on the DVI-I connector.
> It could be that the ATI card has decided to drive DVI-A on the
> cable, and disable the digital portion, when the Windows
> video card driver loads.
>
> If the previous suggestion works, it would suggest that using a
> cable known to only carry DVI-D, might force the issue. With a
> DVI-D only cable, there would be no 75 ohm loads on RGB on the
> analog portion of the ATI card DVI-I connector, which might
> cause the video card to stick with DVI-D output.
>
> In terms of resolution and refresh, the monitor and computer
> communicate via a serial link. The serial link is referred to as
> DDC. The information it carries, is Plug and Play information
> in the form of a block of data called EDID.
>
> You can view the EDID in your working interconnect case, with
> this utility. I'm recommending this utility, purely as a way
> to verify that the EDID is present on both the VGA and the
> DVI interfaces of the monitor.
>
> http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm
>
> In addition to the (automated) Plug and Play info, you can also install
> a "monitor driver". The general reason for providing these, is to
> give an ICM (integrated color management) file. Something that perhaps
> Photoshop might use for bringing colors into line, more or less. A
> monitor calibration tool (Spyder etc), would be used to generate a
> file that exactly compensates for color deficiencies, but the ICM
> file should take care of the basic color mismatch.
>
> But for many users, their reason for downloading the monitor driver,
> is because the INF file in the monitor driver, includes a registry
> entry. In your case, the registry entry might mention 1920x1200 @ 60Hz
> or whatever, as the max resolution.
>
> The actual files are tiny, and I think for my monitor, the whole
> monitor driver package was 6KB. Viewsonic has decided to bundle all
> their monitors into an Installshield, at over 2MB. While I'd like to
> look at the INF, the Installshield makes that a problem. You can try
> installing this, as a means of supplementing the EDID coming across
> the cable.
>
> http://www.viewsonic.com/support/drivers/drivers.cfm?category=1&formName=monitor
>
>
> I suspect, selecting DVI-A in the OSD, will solve the immediate problem.
> The video card may be confused over whether it should be driving
> both the DVI-A and DVI-D pins of the DVI-I connector. And I don't
> really know what the correct policy is, because on the monitor end,
> the monitor itself could be confused about which of the interfaces
> to select automatically when present.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvi
>
> HTH,
> Paul

Thanks Paul,

I've downloaded the utility and will set it up later.
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