Oddball video problem

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This is strictly a hardware question. Wondering if anyone has seen this
before?

Have a Radeon 9200 SE graphic card in an AGP slot running at 4X. This card
has both an analog and DVI outputs. My monitor is a Viewsonic Optiquest
20.5 LCD monitor. It also has analog and DVI inputs.

When I use the analog video cable, have absolutely no problems. When I use
a DVI-DVI cable, it works fine on the first cold boot. I do notice that
some pre-XP screens may not show when using DVI. However, I've found this
normal talking to people that use same and are familiar with analog video.

Here's the problem. After using the DVI-DVI cable on first cold boot, and
subsequent restart (reboot) results in a terribly distorted screen from the
bios screen git-go. Leave it on, and cannot see XP ever. Blank screen.
If, after that occurence, I turn off the PC and even unplug it. A cold boot
results in the same thing a few minutes later. Tried waiting up to 30
minutes before turning back on the PC, with same results. I switch back to
the analog cable, all is fine. I swap back to the DVI cable after turning
off the PC, and same problem reoccurs. If I wait a day, hook up the DVI-DVI
cable, works fine.

Dave
 
This is strictly a hardware question. Wondering if anyone has seen this
before?

Have a Radeon 9200 SE graphic card in an AGP slot running at 4X. This card
has both an analog and DVI outputs. My monitor is a Viewsonic Optiquest
20.5 LCD monitor. It also has analog and DVI inputs.

When I use the analog video cable, have absolutely no problems. When I use
a DVI-DVI cable, it works fine on the first cold boot. I do notice that
some pre-XP screens may not show when using DVI. However, I've found this
normal talking to people that use same and are familiar with analog video.

Here's the problem. After using the DVI-DVI cable on first cold boot, and
subsequent restart (reboot) results in a terribly distorted screen from the
bios screen git-go. Leave it on, and cannot see XP ever. Blank screen.
If, after that occurence, I turn off the PC and even unplug it. A cold boot
results in the same thing a few minutes later. Tried waiting up to 30
minutes before turning back on the PC, with same results. I switch back to
the analog cable, all is fine. I swap back to the DVI cable after turning
off the PC, and same problem reoccurs. If I wait a day, hook up the DVI-DVI
cable, works fine.

Dave
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Which video drivers are you using? You should be using the correct
ones that ATi publishes and not the "default" ones that Microsoft
provides.
 
smlunatick said:
Which video drivers are you using? You should be using the correct
ones that ATi publishes and not the "default" ones that Microsoft
provides.
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ATI.

What difference does that make based on that DVI initially works?

Dave
 
Who knows, but msupdate drivers have been known to be corrupt / wrong
version, so unless you are using the correct manufacturers driver you cannot
begin to diagnose
 
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