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Setting up 30" Apple Display on PC

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Varun

Golden Member
Good day everyone,

This is work related. A new monitor and video card showed up for a department the other day. It was the Apple 30 Inch Display and a Matrox Parhelia PCI 256MB video card.

The Matrox card is supposed to be dual link DVI capable of driving this display.

Hooked it up, some things to note - the Matrox card is PCI-X but does say it is backwards compatible to PCI, so it is in a PCI slot. When booted with the Matrox card, the screen is cut in half and there are two displays showing one on top of the other. It's kind of wierd.

Anyways, installed the drivers for the Matrox card, and attempted to set the resolution to the 2560x1600 native of the LCD, but there is no option for this. The max is 1600x1200. Basically none of the resolutions work, they either show multiple screens, or white lines everywhere.

I removed the PCI card and tried a dual-dvi 6600GT PCI-E card that I had. This one worked much better as far as filling the whole screen, but once again it would not show the resolution 2560x1600. I am not sure if the 6600GT is dual link DVI or not though.

There is no driver for the display, being an apple, which is possibly part of the issue.

Had anyone got any suggestions to try?

Edit - fixed link for correct card
 
Originally posted by: potato28
The max res on that card is 1920x1200 on dual DVI. I think u need to upgrade.
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:thumbsup: Answer... just click the Parhelia link you posted...

Nat
 
Do you have a PCI-X slot to try the card in? It may not function 100% in a PCI slot. If not, personally, I'd drop the Matrox card and get a PCIe card w/dual-link DVI.
 
Originally posted by: Raduque
Do you have a PCI-X slot to try the card in? It may not function 100% in a PCI slot. If not, personally, I'd drop the Matrox card and get a PCIe card w/dual-link DVI.
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Quote from website:
Card type: PCI, 64-bit, 66 MHz, compatible with all PCI and PCI-X slots (not PCIe slots)

I'd love to return the Matrox card but this was ordered through work, so before we do that hassle I would like to try and get it working
 
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