Solved - Displyport issue thread #112 -- monitor goes black after boot up

ponch007

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I am having Triple monitor fun. I have 3 HP 2311x monitors with a Sapphire 6850 (2 DVI, 1 HDMI, and 1 displayport)

2 DVI connected directly to the monitors
displayport --> DVI conncection with Accell active adapter

On boot up, one DVI monitor and the displayport monitor show the bootup, bios, raid screen and the start of Windows 8 loading up. At this point the screens filcker/ go black. The displayport monitor stays black and the then the two DVI monitors load into Windows. Windows recognizes that there are 3 monitors and so does CCC just no picture on the displayport monitor. The displayport monitor power button is lit up but no picture. I have a second 6850 I want to use for crossfire but that will have to wait until I get the displayport worked out. I can run both cards (crossfire disabled) using 3 DVI ports and the 3 monitors with out any issues. Any ideas?
 
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VulgarDisplay

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I am having Triple monitor fun. I have 3 HP 2311x monitors with a Sapphire 6850 (2 DVI, 1 HDMI, and 1 displayport)

2 DVI connected directly to the monitors
displayport --> DVI conncection with Accell active adapter

On boot up, one DVI monitor and the displayport monitor show the bootup, bios, raid screen and the start of Windows 8 loading up. At this point the screens filcker/ go black. The displayport monitor stays black and the then the two DVI monitors load into Windows. Windows recognizes that there are 3 monitors and so does CCC just no picture on the displayport monitor. The displayport monitor power button is lit up but no picture. I have a second 6850 I want to use for crossfire but that will have to wait until I get the displayport worked out. I can run both cards (crossfire disabled) using 3 DVI ports and the 3 monitors with out any issues. Any ideas?

Turn the monitor off and back on see if it starts working.
 

jackstar7

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When it happens to me, I switch to an alternate input source and then back to the one I'm using.
 

p_monks33

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I had trouble with eyefinity , I believe the displayport on many AMD cards puts out too low of a voltage to supply an image at times. I have heard of people getting a new bios with higher output voltage on DP, I never tried, I just gave up and went back to a Nvidia setup.