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.Â
lopaka
From: Winterlight <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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 RAMÂ 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
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Jamie Furtner [email protected]
