Need some help with my monitor

[Scody]

The other day I updated drivers for my video card (8600gts) and my screen went black. The only way I can get my screen back is by going into safe mode and rolling back the drivers or restoring from a restore point. Just now, I tried my other monitor on my pc and it works perfectly with all of the up to date drivers installed. I tried chaning resolutions on my mointor that doesnt work, but nothing. Does anyone know why it will work on on monitor but not on the other? Im guessing I just have one simple setting to change it will work, but I hope it is that simple. Any help would be appreciated.

[danzil]

have you tried the suspect monitor on another pc..

what hertz is your monitor settings at

regards

danzil

[Scody]

Well, I have an update. My monitor can use both DVI and VGA cables and I have been using the DVI for the past 2 months. I tried switching to the VGA cables and it works fine now. So does that mean my cable isn't working anymore?

[danzil]

well i would try another cable for sure....

i will look into your card details and post back...

i tried plugging my tft into my card (brand new) and got nothing so maybe a setting.

i dont usually use dvi so slighty bnew to me.bost all cards with dvi and vga i have installed can use both.

regards

danzil

ps maybe worth trying your vga cable with a vga to dvi converter (£2) to make sure it is the cable and not the dvi connection itself

[Scody]

Yes, that is what I am doing right now. I have my VGA cable connected to my monitor, then plugged into a VGA to DVI converter, then plugged into my monitor and it's running fine. First I will try a new cable and if that doesn't work, I guess i'll take my monitor over to a friends house and see if it works there.

[danzil]

good plan

regards

danzil

[hardware_dave]

A dvi to vga adaptor will not tell you anything. The rows of small pins are the dvi, the cross shaped blades at the end are normal analog vga. The adaptor just routes the cross shaped blades to normal vga and ignores the digital pins.

 

Is it possible that you card supports twin head mode and that the dvi is one head and the analog is the other ?

 

The later drivers may have different default twinhead settings than the older one.

 

I few of my workshop monitors have DVI + analog inputs, they have a button on the front to switch inputs does yours ?

 

Dave