Dale wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Dale<[email protected]> [10-12-14 05:04]:
Hi,
I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig.
While doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it
worked fine. I unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the
new rig. The new monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the
Gateway EV910 hooked up, it doesn't even come out of power saver mode
or show the BIOS screen that pops up when I first turn the puter on.
It does work with the one I used to install with, EV700. So, I know
the card didn't mess up in the switch.
Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS
issue. Is there some setting I have to change to be able to change
monitors or am I just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up a
different monitor that makes it not work? Both monitors support the
same resolutions and I have switched these before with my old rig and
not a single problem.
What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers what
monitor it is supposed to hook up to?
Thoughts? Fixes would be nice.
Dale
:-) :-)
Hi Dale,
just a shot in the dark (I did the same a few weeks ago):
May the non-working monitor has more than one input jack, say
HDMI, DVI and analog.
May be the monitor is set to await a signal at the HDMI input
and physically the signal is feed into the DVI input ?
HTH!
Best regards,
mcc
This is a older monitor. It only has the DB-15 connector and the
power cord of course. This is funny tho. I booted the new puter with
the EV700 monitor hooked up. I logged into KDE and once it was
running, I cut off the power to the old monitor and unhooked the cable
from the puter. I then hooked up the EV910 monitor and cut on its
power. It works. Thing is, if I reboot, it does the same thing
again. No BIOS screen or anything. Weird huh?
I may cut everything off, remove the video card from the system and
see if there is a button or battery on it. Maybe that will do
something, reset if nothing else. For those keeping up, even the
BIOS screen doesn't show up so this is not Gentoo, grub or anything.
It's just weird.
Open to other ideas tho. This is the weirdest thing I have seen in a
while.
Dale
:-) :-)
Update with some more info. This may be a monitor setting or
something. I took the video card out and put in a different card, ATI
actually. It works with the EV700 but not the EV910. No BIOS screen
on the EV910 but works on the EV700.
Another thing I noticed, when I switch displays after logging in, the
EV910 is not as bright as usual. I'm not sure how that would matter but
thought I would mention it.
Anybody ever seen this before? If it was the OS then that would be one
thing but not even the BIOS screen works. I thought that would even if
nothing else would.
Thoughts?
Dale
:-) :-)
