Strange problem with a brand new Samsung LCD

[C Dub]

Hi guys & gals,

My old 26" acer finally died so I went out and got a Samsung SyncMaster 305T. It's a gorgous 30" lcd.

When I first hooked it up, it did nothing but display the color test pattern (cycling between black, white, red, green, blue). Even in the BIOS display.

I hooked up a second monitor (my old Samsung Syncmaster 210t), and was able to see everything just fine. Started playing with settings and the new 305T finally kicked in and displayed as it should when I dropped the resolution down to any value equal to or below 1280x800.

If I raise the resolution any higher than that the monitor goes back to the test pattern. It's SUPPOSED to support up to 2560x1600.

My Video Card is the nvidia gtx280 and I'm on Vista x64.

Here's the strange thing - Vista detects my old SyncMaster 210T just fine, but the new 305T comes up as "Generic pnp monitor," even though the resolution slider would otherwise let me go up to 2560x1600. I've checked the samsung site and conducted a pretty extensive google search, and there are no drivers available for the 305T. It likewise did not ship with a driver disc. Somehow I think if the proper driver were installed it might just work.

A lot of people seem to be having this problem with Samsung displays and Vista. Just curious if anyone has encountered this and what they were able to do about it.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

[Foxery]

Grab a copy of PowerStrip. Since you don't have drivers for the specific monitor, this program has the ability to auto-detect its capabilities from the monitor's own little on-board ROM and create a custom .INF file for you to feed to Windows. Worked like a charm on my Samsung HDTV that had a similar problem.

 

[C Dub]

For anyone that has a similar problem, I found out what's wrong.

For whatever reason, my monitor shipped with a single-link DVI cable. I believe this is an error on Samsung's part - it's supposed to ship with dual.

I noticed it totally accidentally, the cable fell out of the monitor during repositioning and when I went to plug it back in, I noticed the gap between the rows of pins!

Anyway, I went out and bought a dual-link cable and now all is well, I'm typing this in glorious 2560x1600 (actually have to squint a little, lol).

Thanks Foxery for the reply and thanks to anyone else who read this thread.