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DVI port not working on TI4200 - some trick to enabling it? - RESOLVED

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MrBond

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I bought my Ti4200 with future upgrades in mind, so I got a dual-head version with a built in DVI port, even though at the time I was using a CRT monitor.

I got a 2001FP yesterday, but when I hook it up via the DVI cable, it doesn't display anything on the LCD (even with that input selected). The Nvidia drivers don't show any sort of option to output via the DVI port or the VGA port, it's defaulting to the VGA port.

Those of you with this setup, how do you enable the DVI port? I have a an MSI Ti4200 with 128mb of ram.

Edit: Found the problem. Hooked up the monitor via DVI with the PC off, booted up and everything is working fine now.
 
actually, there's nothing special to be enabled for dvi display... when i had my ti 4200 i plugged in dvi to my lcd and it worked exactly the same as the vga cable... so u might want to check your cable perhaps?

 
Now is your cable a Digital or an analog type of DVI? did it come with the monitor ?
Check option in the driver properties! After you boot up go into display properties and see if you can see 2 monitors inthere ? if there is just one then there is something wrong with your connections
 
This is probably yet another NVidia chip based card whose DVI signal isn't good enough for those high resolution displays. (The technical background is that the transmitter unit integrated into the main NVidia chips has rather poor signal quality, particularly at higher pixel frequencies as needed for these big displays.)
 
I only see one monitor displayed on the display properties - it's a dual head video card, it seems like in the past it did show two monitors, but one was disabled. I'm using the DVI cable that came with my monitor and is supplied by Dell.

I have some utilities for this video card, unfortunatly they're in a box 110 miles away - I may see if I can find anything on MSI's site. I can't even find an option in the display properties to enable S-video output, and it seems like there was one in the past.
 
OK, so I figured it out 🙂

Apparently you can't hot-swap DVI connections like you can with the old VGA connectors. When I got to my new apartment, I setup my PC and on a whim plugged the DVI cable into the monitor and into my PC. Booted up just fine and XP is detecting it as a digital monitor.

Thanks for the help guys - I'm updating my main post in case someone else has the same problem and searches about it.
 
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