Dual Displays, and Dual Vid Card Help Please :-( 30'' Cinemas
Hello all, I just recieved my 30'' Cinema Displays from the Fedex man this morning and am having a bit of trouble getting everything up and running.
My System is:
Windows XP Home
AMD Fx-57
2GB Corsair XMS DDR 400 Ramm
Asus Asi-8 Premium Board
Dual Evga 7800 GTX 256mb PCIe x16 Cards
Currently at my disposal to make this work I have:
2x 30'' Cinema Displays
2x Evga Nvidia 7800 GTX 256mb PCIe x16 Cards
I say this because no matter what I do I cannot get both moniters to function properly.
At first I had had both cards in my desktop running SLI, and I attempted to plug in the monitors, neither would turn on when I booted up the pc, I tried every array I could possibly think of to even get some activity out of both, or even a SOLO monitor with the cards on SLI Mode.
Eventually I just grabbed one of the cards out, so that I was running on a single 7800 GTX card.
WHAM both monitors booted up normally heres the problem Im now faced with, in this mode I can set one monitors resolution (whichever monitor I have set as primary) to the normal maximum allowed by the 30'' Cinema.
The problem comes when faceing the other monitor which is stuck at 1280 x800, giving a very wierd look and panning feel.
Is there any way at all to make theese work?
I dont care If i have to go down to 1 card, or even go buy a new card
I just want both monitors to be running at high res.
Thanks a bundle,
Nick
You have to look at the specs for your video cards, but it looks like your video card only supports one dual-link DVI and the other connection is single-link DVI. You need a card with dual dual-link DVI outputs. I believe the high end ATI X1800 and X1900 video cards support this.
I'm not familiar with SLI to help there.
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