Digital BW, The Print

On Apr 11, 2010, at 9:11 PM, tboleyyh wrote:

> It's been suggested my graphics card can't power both well, sounds  
> reasonable but I'm not sure why it would drive both at first, then  
> slowly fail. I can't recall how I tested this, but it doesn't seem  
> to be the monitor itself.

Start by disconnecting both displays, hooking the problem display in  
to the OTHER port. See if it runs okay that way. If so, its probably  
not the display. Next hook what was the primary monitor to the  
secondary port, and see if the problem now occurs with THAT display,  
indicating that its the second port. At that point, if you don't have  
a second slot for a second card, get a new card with full dual port  
functionality. If you can support two cards, get a cheap second card,  
and continue to use the main card for the main display, and the second  
card for the second display. At least until the older card dies  
altogether, which may or may not be in the cards...

Cards are cheap these days, its slots that are precious. You can often  
use a PCI Express card in a slot that would not support a typical  
display card, and PCI Express are the one type of cards that  
consistantly seem to support two profiled and calibrated displays at  
once... even under Windows.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...


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