monitor "out of range" on boot

[SeanFL]

Recently changed to a new monitor (LG 34 inch). This is the first monitor I'm feeding over displayport on an Asrock Z68 Pro 3 motherboard with Intel HD 3000 graphics. (prior dual monitors were fed over hdmi and dvi).

When I boot the system from being off, the monitor won't display anything and says "out of range." If I then put the system into standby, then wake it up, the monitor will come to life.

Have tried to change the refresh rate from 60hz to 30hz and it does the same thing. Any ideas of something else to try?

Also, are there difficulties getting bios to display when fed over DP or into a super high res monitor? It doesn't display anything on boot.

Am I just getting to the point where this 3 year old system won't play well with the newest stuff? Most recent bios from AsRock is at least a year ago. Wondering if this is a motherboard bios/driver issue, or an Intel driver issue.

Thanks for your guidance. Sean

 

[stahlhart]

I'm guessing that what's out of range is the horizontal scan rate and not the vertical refresh. This happened here once, and the unfortunate outcome was that the monitor simply wouldn't shake hands with the GPU, an older ATI All-In-Wonder. Another monitor did, which was how it ended up getting fixed.

 

[inachu]

Boot into VGA SAFEMODE THen choose 1024x768 mode. Apply then reboot and now your new monitor should work when you boot normally.

Go into video device settings and make sure the chock box is marked for: HIDE UNSUPPORTED video settings.

 

[SeanFL]

Thank you for the replies. Inachu, I got to the final step and find the "hide modes that this monitor cannot display" is grayed out.

After searching for that solution, others suggest that I ensure the monitor and display driver both are listed in device manager. The adapter is listed as intel HD 3000 and the monitor is listed properly (LG 34um95). The LG driver is listed as driver provider LG, date 11/15/2013, version 1.0.0.0, signed by Microsoft.

Any other ideas? When I boot the machine, the bios boot screen also seems out of range and doesn't display. Maybe it's the bios that won't play well with this monitor?

Switching to the HDMI input does solve this particular issue, but then my refresh rate is limited to 29 or 30, where the monitor will do 60 via displayport. I'd prefer to stay on displayport if possible.

Thanks for guidance. Sean

 

[Cerb]

You need a video card. A Geforce GT 630 w/ DP would be a good one to try, or any newer low-end Radeon w/ DP.

Am I just getting to the point where this 3 year old system won't play well with the newest stuff?

Not here, though that would be a good excuse. Monitor compatibility, including sleep/wake problems, even if res/refresh were gotten right, even over VGA and DVI, was a problem for Intel IGP from the get-go. You will find most major OEM business machines had cheap Radeons or Geforces in them, for just that reason, even w/ VGA/DVI-I and 2xDP outs on the mobos.

 

[kasakka]

Is this the only monitor connected to the system? If not, anything connected with VGA or DVI will usually become the one that shows the BIOS.