Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
I will probably stick with three ..large in the middle flanked by two smaller ones it works really well for me. It's surprising how cheap they all are. And all the old players in this market are gone. I don't like the curved TVs either but I will check out curved monitors. At 07:13 PM 9/26/2016, you wrote: I've got four 27' WQHD displays (2560x1440)--two at home and two that I brought in to my office. For me, the biggest driver is PPI. I'd like my next upgrade to me to something like a 34" UHD display, IPS or *VA panel, and curved. I didn't find anything like that the last time I looked. I'm no fan of curved TVs, but I think it'll actually be pretty nice for very large monitors where you're sitting so close. I've sat down a few demos and was surprised that I didn't hate it. -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 9:05 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem I wish that would work all the time.. it helps but sometimes the screen just goes blank and a long process begins of getting it working again starts up. Greg, I am thinking 28 or 30 inch monitors and I know you have four 28s.. are they just lined up in a row or in a mounted on a tree stand? Are there any particular brands or anything I should think about when buying monitors now... I haven't bought one since I got my 30 inch back in 08. I assume that now all large monitors are scaleable like my 30 inch gateway. >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
Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
I've got four 27' WQHD displays (2560x1440)--two at home and two that I brought in to my office. For me, the biggest driver is PPI. I'd like my next upgrade to me to something like a 34" UHD display, IPS or *VA panel, and curved. I didn't find anything like that the last time I looked. I'm no fan of curved TVs, but I think it'll actually be pretty nice for very large monitors where you're sitting so close. I've sat down a few demos and was surprised that I didn't hate it. -Original Message- From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 9:05 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem I wish that would work all the time.. it helps but sometimes the screen just goes blank and a long process begins of getting it working again starts up. Greg, I am thinking 28 or 30 inch monitors and I know you have four 28s.. are they just lined up in a row or in a mounted on a tree stand? Are there any particular brands or anything I should think about when buying monitors now... I haven't bought one since I got my 30 inch back in 08. I assume that now all large monitors are scaleable like my 30 inch gateway. >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
Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
I wish that would work all the time.. it helps but sometimes the screen just goes blank and a long process begins of getting it working again starts up. Greg, I am thinking 28 or 30 inch monitors and I know you have four 28s.. are they just lined up in a row or in a mounted on a tree stand? Are there any particular brands or anything I should think about when buying monitors now... I haven't bought one since I got my 30 inch back in 08. I assume that now all large monitors are scaleable like my 30 inch gateway. 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
Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
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 >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>
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 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
Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
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 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
Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
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 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 Â
Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
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 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 Â
Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
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 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 Â
Re: [H] Strange NVIDIA problem
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 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
[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
