Or just disable power-saving for the time being. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 8:00 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
It looks like it is the monitor. First I switched out the cables and I had the same issue from different video card ports. So I knew it was the monitor and I tried it in a SVGA port rather then the DVI port it was in... same problem. I do plan a major upgrade of monitors and video card in the near future but for right now I am really busy and I don't have the time for the big change, and I haven't decided what I am going to upgrade to.... I don't want to rush my decision. I will probably just get a cheap temporary monitor to hold me for the next few months. Thanks everybody. At 05:39 PM 9/26/2016, you wrote: >Yes, try switching cables around. I have had a Nvidia 8800-series card >stop detecting one of my screens intermittently on boot, but my 670 >worked fine. It would work fine if I just hard-restarted the machine, >and the problem was masked when I swapped cables (same monitor is >working fine with a 1080). > >I think a 1060 would be fine for your intended use. I don't think >there's a difference between any of the 10-series cards and the >monitors they can drive. Keep in mind that the Nvidia 10-series cards >only support 4 devices even if they have more ports, and they only >support digital output (so a DVI-I to VGA adapter will not work even if >it has the port). You may need (as I did when I upgraded) new cables or >adapters as the reference design has 1 HDMI and 1 DVI, and 3 DisplayPorts. > >Jamie > > >On 2016-09-26 3:28 PM, Winterlight wrote: >> >>I don't have a hdmi on the monitor and I don't have VGA on the video >>card so the only way would be to use an adaptor, and I would still be >>coming off the same video card DVI port and I would never know for >>sure. I guess I will try switching the cables on the monitors and see >>if it still happens. If it does I will look to the video card. >> >>To that end ...the 2nd part of my question. >> >> I am not a big gamer but I do have a steam account and very >> occasionally I will buy a game and play it... usually something that >> is years old... I just played Left4Dead2 for example. However I do >> intend to be driving four large monitors in the near future... so >> will a EVGA GTX 1060 with 6GB of RAM do the job or do I need to >> spend the money on ta GTX 1070. Yes the 1070 will be better in modern >> games and 3D but I don't use it for that. >> Will the model number of a modern video card make any difference for >> day to day multi monitor support? >> >> >>At 01:39 PM 9/26/2016, you wrote: >>>Try a different interface connector on the monitor. I've had weird >>>symptoms when the interface goes bad. >>> >>> >>>On 9/26/2016 2:18 PM, Winterlight wrote: >>>>changing to a lower resolution yeah... but a higher refresh rate... >>>>that the part I find hard to blame on the monitor. >>>> >>>> >>>>At 11:09 AM 9/26/2016, you wrote: >>>>>Could be the monitor. Swap them around and see if that monitor does >>>>>it (changes to lower res) on a different output. I've had a couple >>>>>monitors that did that before going out completely. lopaka >>>>> From: Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org> >>>>> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com >>>>> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 11:03 AM >>>>> Subject: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem >>>>> >>>>>My desktop uses a three year old NVIDIA GTX 660 plugged into three >>>>>monitors. In the last 3 months I have been having a problem with >>>>>the left hand monitor which is a Dell 2407 that runs at 1920 X 1600 >>>>>. The other two monitors are fine. When the monitors wake up I >>>>>have no signal to the 2407 and all the wall papers and icons are >>>>>skewed over to the right. Sometimes a reboot or a complete shutdown >>>>>and resetting the cables will bring back the signal but even when >>>>>that happens now it comes back at 1024x768 and even stranger at a >>>>>refresh rate of 75hz instead of 60hz and then it is a big struggle >>>>>to get it back to the correct resolution and refresh rate because >>>>>the correct >>>>>1920 X 1600 at 60 hz isn't even available to select. >>>>> >>>>>The first thing I did was to remove and then update and install the >>>>>driver but it happened again. To find out if it was hardware or >>>>>software when the monitor was down I booted into a different OS. My >>>>>desktop dual boots Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows 10 Pro. The problem >>>>>remained so I knew it couldn't be a software problem. That left the >>>>>video card, the cable, or the monitor. >>>>> >>>>>The cable is a top quality DVI cable that I got from Monoprice. It >>>>>appears to be in good condition and I have removed and re seated it >>>>>a number of times on both video card and monitor when this has >>>>>happened. A couple of times I thought it was a re seating of the >>>>>cable that was causing the problem but it couldn't still be the >>>>>problem and besides I don't see how the monitor itself, or the >>>>>cable could account for a change in resolution, or an increase in >>>>>refresh rate. the monitor is using the correct DELL driver and has >>>>>no monitor type problems... such as pixalation or breaking up >>>>>video, that sort of thing. Last night I reset Power Balance to >>>>>never put the monitors to sleep and I will see if that solves the problem for the time being. >>>>> >>>>>It has to be the video card right? >>>>> >>>>> I am not a big gamer but I do have a steam account and very >>>>>occasionally I will buy a game and play it... usually something >>>>>that is years old... I just played Left4Dead2 for example. However >>>>>I do intend to be driving four large monitors in the near future... >>>>>so will a EVGA GTX 1060 with 6GB of RAM do the job or do I need >>>>>to spend the money on ta GTX 1070. Yes the 1070 will be better in >>>>>modern games and 3D but I don't use it for that. Will the model >>>>>number of a modern video card make any difference for day to day >>>>>multi monitor support? Thanks w >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > >-- >Jamie Furtner ja...@furtner.ca >
