Medical grade grey scale monitors with a Mac Pro

Has anyone been successful in using a Mac Pro to drive a pair of 3 mP grey scale monitors for remote radiology viewing and if so what video card works? When I use my MacBookPro dual dvi output to a "Wide" monitor there are two images present on the screen, side by side.

Most of the newer MacPro models have one dual-link DVI port and one mini-display port. So you may need a mini-display-to-DVI adapter if you plan to use two monitors.
http://store.apple.com/us/search?find=MiniDisplayPort+to+DVIAdapter&mco=Nzc1MjMwNg
-DH

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There's lots of Mac Mini models since 2006 or so. What do you have?
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Put this phrase into Google
dual monitors, mac mini
and you'll come up with the solution needed based on which MM you have.

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Is it possible to have 3 DVI monitors with Thunderbolt Mac Mini?

Maybe.
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The second could be via a HDMI to DVI cable
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Whatever Monitor you like, exclusively. There are adapters available for everything.
Analog VGA is not a good idea. It's a Digital world. But it can be done if you want.
A TV set is not a Monitor. TV sets are for moving pictures, and may do badly with stable pictures, fine lines, parallel lines, smooth-edged text, and adjacent patches of bright colors.
Wider than 1920 needs special attention to details.

I am looking to buy a Mac mini, but I already have a monitor with a dvi plug in. Will I be able to use this monitor with the Mac mini??

I am looking to buy a Mac mini, but I already have a monitor with a dvi plug in. Will I be able to use this monitor with the Mac mini??

Here are the Mini's specs:

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Does the monitor work now from a reboot?
IOf yes then:
OS X: When your Mac doesn't sleep or wake - Apple Support
Apple computers: Black screen or unresponsive Mini DisplayPort display after sleep - Apple Support
Just about any modern monitor will work with your Mac

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Hello Everyone:
I just purchased, and waiting to arrive a new 2014 8 core Mac Pro which is an upgrade to my 2009 quad core Mac Pro. I currently use a 30 inch Apple Cinema display which has the DVI connection. I was thinking that I would use a DVI to HDMI adapter and plug the 30" into the HDMI port on the new Mac Pro. I have since heard that people have been having issues with this older monitor getting it to work properly with the new mac pro. some have suggested buy the $99 mini display port to DVI adapter and using that, but I don't believe there is a mini display port on the new mac pro.
I have considered buying a new thunderbolt display because I am assuming that it will have a much better image quality than the older 30 in display but I hate the fact that it's a 27" and I would be giving up the 3" in size. I do a lot of video and audio recording editing and love the extra screen real-estate. Can anyone confirm a couple of things for me?
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2. Does the new Thunderbolt display have a much better image quality than the 30 in display and because its newer, will look that much better with the mach pro?
Thank you in advance.

1. Will the 30 inch display work with a new Mac Pro?
Yes.
Can I use the DVI to HDMI adapter?
Not if you want full resolution. You need a Mini DisplayPort to dual-link DVI adapter
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB571Z/A/mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-ada pter>
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2. Does the new Thunderbolt display have a much better image quality than the 30 in display and because its newer, will look that much better with the Mac Pro?
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3 monitors on a mac pro 4.1

Hello
In trying to run 3 monitors on a mac pro 4.1, I have recently bought a Radeon 5870 card from Apple as advised by a 'genius' at the local apple store.
This setup does not work, even giving worse performance than the 4770 with 2 of the monitors (NEC 30" & Apple cinema 23").
Both these cards require 2 power connectors so adding another doesn't seem possible, however the 5770 uses only 1, so is it possible to run two 5770 and bring my spare Apple 23" in to use for a 3 monitor desktop? I have tried lots of permutations with both mountain lion and snow leopard, zapped pram, reset etc to no avail.
Any advice welcome!
Thanks
John Law
Bath UK

you probably didn't need 5870 as the 5770 also can drive 3 monitors but it is the screen resolution and adapters that make all the difference.
I assume as there was no Apple 4770 that you meant the 4870 that was a BTO at one point.
Apple Mini DisplayPort adapters: Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3382
Guide to Apple graphic display adapters needed
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3235
Atlona (Dual Link) DVI to Mini DisplayPort Converter for Apple 27-inch LED and 27-inch iMac
http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-Dual-Link-DVI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-USB-Pow ered.html
Mac Pro (Early 2009), Mac Pro (Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Mid 2012): Issues with three displays and multiple DVI, HDMI connections
It's not the USB data that is needed to run three displays. It's the extra POWER. If you read the Apple article, they say the only solution they endorse is their US$100 Dual-Link adapters. Check the table at the end of the article.
Mac Pro (Early 2009), Mac Pro (Mid 2010): Supported display configurations
Readers here have found that if you have two Brand-X Powered adapters, aka active adapters, it also works fine. These do not always require another USB. If designed recently, they can pick up a power pin in the Mini DisplayPort interface.
AMD (makers of the 5770 and 5870) lists the qualified POWERED adapters that meet their most stringent requirements. Look down the page and you will find several qualified Active Mini DisplyPort to various others, such as HDMI. These adapters are available from other outlets, such as Amazon, sometimes for far less than the Apple adapters.
http://support.amd.com/us/eyefinity/Pages/eyefinity-dongles.aspx
The other desktop monitor will plug directly into the DVI port on the card and the 40 inch tv will still connect via HDMI over the second Mini Display port.
That will work only if you use an active Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter.
The only (someone) have found to work (2009)
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/337561577/miniactive_display_port_tohdmi.html
but you should confirm that they are really active before buying 500 of them.
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If you want audio via HDMI, you can use audio from the Mac Pro's optical output with this DVI to HDMI converter:
http://www.apogeeinc.net/products/item.aspx?item=2745

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I'm looking for suggestions for using dual external monitors with new MacBook Pro's. The company I work for has started to puchase these for certain employees and we are looking for any good suggestions.
It appears that the display/thunderbolt port should be able to support many devices but I have not seen any way to hook up multiple displays. The idea is that these employees would be working with the macbook pro screen closed while in the office and use dual displays. The only option that I can find is to use a usb device to output video to a second display. I don't really like that because my experience with these devices is that they usally present a display lag and I know our graphic designers would never go for that.
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Am I missing anything? Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks!

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If you want to connect 2 Displays you must do it one with the Minidisplayport and one by HDMI if you have a Retina 13 Inch. i think the old MBP doenst have HDMi Out

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<http://www.barefeats.com/nehal06.html>
"If you didn't buy a new 2009 Mac Pro but want to use the new graphics cards released with the Nehalem Mac Pros, you can buy the GeForce 120 GT and Radeon HD 4870 in kit form from Apple. They both worked in our 2008 Harpertown 3.20GHz Mac Pro as you can see from the graphs above. We also got the Radeon HD 4870 to run in the 2007 Clovertown first generation Mac Pro. A close colleague has one working in the 2006 Woodcrest first generation Mac Pro."
<http://blog.macsales.com/602-testing-those-new-graphics-cards>
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Cannot connect LG monitor to my mac pro running bootcamp

Any ideas why I cannot connect my LG monitor to my Mac Pro which is running Bootcamp?

I have managed to connect this old monitor using a DVI to VGA connector and a vga to BNC adapter.
This gives me a picture but as the max resolution of the broadcast monitor is 1024 x 768, its a pain because if i select "mirror" in display prefs, the mac screen resolution looks horrible at the same settings as the monitor. As the monitor is clearly old and has no 16:9, Hd or decent inputs, am I better off just going out and buying a decent plasma/lcd screen with HDMi inputs and use this to check approximate colours etc?
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Will the new monitor work with older Mac Pro's?

Why does the Apple store list the ATI Radeon HD 4870 Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro as only the Early 2008 & Early 2009 models?
Only Apple knows, but the comments section, and many posts here, show it works in any Mac Pro/
I'd like to use the new 27" LED with my original 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. I currently have the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT.
You can use it with the dual-link DVI port (only one port is dual-link) on the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with a converter
<http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-Dual-Link-DVI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-USB-Po wered.html>
The ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphics Upgrade Kit says it's only compatible with the Mid 2010 version.
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<http://blog.macsales.com/6856-owc-reveals-which-radeon-video-cards-work-with-20 06-2009-mac-pros>
OWC says the Mini DisplayPorts didn't work, but that doesn't appear to be true:
<http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12165151#12165151>
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<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4279>

Radeon HD 5770 graphics card works perfectly with my MAC Pro 1,1 and Adobe CS6. However, Photoshop CC won't read the card drivers and says I need to reinstall them and disabled 3D funtions as a result. Anyone else with this issue?

Radeon HD 5770 graphics card works perfectly with my MAC Pro 1,1 and Adobe CS6. However, I upgraded to Adobe CC and Photoshop CC disabled some filters and 3D functionality. The preference panel for Performance/Graphics Card in Photoshop CC is greyed out and inaccessible and shows this message -
"Photoshop detected an error in your display driver. Update or reinstall the driver and check Use Graphics Processor to retry."
I still have Photoshop CS6 installed and it still works perfectly. Anyone else with this issue? Is there a driver update for this compatable with my setup?
OS 10.7.5
Mac Pro 1,1
20gb ram
ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphics Card
30" Apple Cinema HD display

after going round with this Adobe was able to find the fix....opened the "show content" folder for the application Photoshop CC (control click on the application folder) and navigate to the sniffer file and rename it by putting a tilda ~ in front of the name..." ~sniffer ", close and open PhotoshopCC...and voila, problem solved... Thankyou Adobe support

Two weird issues with my Mac Pro (locking up and failing to reboot)

Hello,
I am having two problems with my Mac Pro. The first one is every time I put it to sleep and then wake it up it locks up. This problem came after I installed Leopard (in Tiger sometimes it would take longer to come out of sleep but it always came out). My other problem showed up after I installed Leopard as well, every time I go up to the apple menu and click on restart my computer dose everything normal but when it goes to the “off” state it sits there and reboots over and over and over again. I don’t ever hear the bong or see the grey start screen; I can just hear my CD-ROM drives being accessed (clicking sound I usually hear when I turn the computer on) over and over again. I have run the Apple Hardware Test and it comes back clean, I have also reset the SMC and zapped the PRAM.
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with these problems and knew how to fix them.

This is exactly what my Mac Pro did before it died last Friday (9 November 2007).
Apple keeps saying Mac Pro death isn't common, but I've talked to a dozen people whose Pro died just like mine did.
Apple gave me a brand new Pro Sunday, which was nice of them, and I probably was just unlucky with the first one.
Still, it is obvious that Apple is having QC issues lately.
USB video devices will crash a Mac Pro consistently, for example. It's really disappointing because the machine is very nice otherwise.

Medical grade grey scale monitors with a Mac Pro

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