30" Cinema Display running HOT

I have two 30" cinema displays thru a ATI Radeon X1900 XT into a MacPro. Display 1 into monitor port 1 on the MacPro. The monitor is hot (physically) compared 2nd Monitor. Sound familiar?

Did you install the nvidia binary drivers? You'll definitely need to....
Besides that, I think I had to override the refresh rates rates. You can tell if this is necessary by looking at the /var/log/x* log file - see if its tossing out 2560x1600 due to bad refresh rates - if so, set vert to 60hz and increase the horizontal until it stops kicking out the modes.

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I have a 23" Apple Cinema Display running with a MacPro 2,8 GHz. When I switch to PC using BootCamp 2.1 with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 32bit the screen becomes extremely dark.
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OOPs all. I looked at the other posts and see my answer.
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