I have a semi-old Samsung Syncmaster 206BW 20'' LCD, and I've run into some strange monitor (I believe) related issues while trying to play some modern-ish games. Everything works fine for games like BF2, Baldurs Gate 2, Minecraft, COD MW2, HL2, but I've noticed an issue on games like Hitman:BM and Dead Space. Within a few minutes of starting a game, or in Dead Space's case, the intro, the monitor goes black and a window pops up showing the monitor switch between analog and digital. It does this for 10 seconds or so when the monitor finally goes black and the monitor power button starts flashing. I'm then stuck, and the only thing that gets me out of this is hard rebooting the system.
The monitor is 1680x1050 60Hz, and that's what the resolution/refresh rate is set as in Dead Space, though I'm still having problems. When I check the monitor in the system tab, it shows up as analog, even though it's my understanding that all LCD monitors are inherently digital. Monitor drivers have been updated, though I'm not sure if that even matters.
It seems to me that the problem is the monitor trying to run as analog for modern games, since it only happens in a select few newish games. My monitor was previously used to run an old geforce6600, so there's some sort of adapter on the monitor cable still (even though I upgraded and now run a radeon4850), which makes me think I used the old VGA cable from my monitor, and a DVI adapter, all plugged in to the DVI port on the video card. This sounds like it would be causing my issues. I'm thinking I should uninstall all video card/monitor drivers, get an actual DVI cable, then reinstall the drivers again so it picks up the monitor as digital and keeps it that way. Does that sound like a fix for this, or does anyone else have any experience with something similar to this? I don't wanna mess things up too bad or waste too much time.
Thanks.
The monitor is 1680x1050 60Hz, and that's what the resolution/refresh rate is set as in Dead Space, though I'm still having problems. When I check the monitor in the system tab, it shows up as analog, even though it's my understanding that all LCD monitors are inherently digital. Monitor drivers have been updated, though I'm not sure if that even matters.
It seems to me that the problem is the monitor trying to run as analog for modern games, since it only happens in a select few newish games. My monitor was previously used to run an old geforce6600, so there's some sort of adapter on the monitor cable still (even though I upgraded and now run a radeon4850), which makes me think I used the old VGA cable from my monitor, and a DVI adapter, all plugged in to the DVI port on the video card. This sounds like it would be causing my issues. I'm thinking I should uninstall all video card/monitor drivers, get an actual DVI cable, then reinstall the drivers again so it picks up the monitor as digital and keeps it that way. Does that sound like a fix for this, or does anyone else have any experience with something similar to this? I don't wanna mess things up too bad or waste too much time.
Thanks.
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