[PLUG] Monitor Hardware Question

[nathan w]

Is the vga port coming from onboard video, while the dvi is coming from a separate graphics card? If so, you may need to disable onnboard graphics in the bios. I've been bit by that situation before...

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From: "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
To: <plug at pdxlinux.org>
Subject: [PLUG] Monitor Hardware Question
Date: Mon, Aug 29, 2011 3:47 pm


   My new Acer S201HL DVI-capable monitor arrived today. Naturally, the
instructions on how to install it are on the enclosed cd-rom which can't be
read until the monitor is installed and working.

   Anyway, I attached the heavy DVI cable I bought at ENU to both the monitor
and the system and turned on the monitor. No signal it kept telling me. So I
tried the DVI cable that came with it. Same result: no signal. As a last
resort, I used the VGA cable. Signal.

   Reading the manual suggests that the vga cable needs to be attached along
with the dvi cable. Does this make sense? If this is the case, I cannot use
the heavy ENU cable as its plug is too big to fit the socket with the vga
plug installed. The Acer dvi cable is thinner with smaller plugs.

Rich
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