On 11/05/2011 21:59, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The monitor will eventually fire up - might take two, three, four G5
> power-ups,
> might have to leave it for hours and just sometimes it might come on
> immediately.
>
>
> Haven't successfully powered up in safe mode because you have to have the USB
> keyboard plugged in, and it won't fire up with USBs plugged in.
>
> The ATI Radeon 9600 pro has an ADC and a DVI-I port so I have only used the
> DVI
> port.
>
> The adaptor is to allow me to use the monitor which only has a VGA port. The
> adaptor goes from the DVI-I port on the G5 to a VGA-VGA cable which runs the
> monitor. I haven't tried a monitor which can take DVI-I. We do have one in
> the
> house but I haven't got a DVI-I/DVI-I cable.
>
> Once I get the monitor to fire with the G5 it works well, no wobble, a choice
> of
> monitor sizes, millions of colours etc. It also always works well with the G4
> (using just the same VGA-VGA cable) I figure some loose component on the G5
> card
> is causing a voltage/charge drop. No bulging or leaking capacitors evident.
>
> Unfortunately I haven't got another graphics card to try so I was hoping there
> might be a dodgy component that always gives trouble and could be resoldered
> or
> something.
Sounds like a bad dvi/vga adapter - have you checked for bent pins on
it? - try a different adapter. Cable pins can be bent too causing
intermittent contact. Also worth trying an adc/vga adapter if you can get
one....
Pete
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