Mercury Playback is blind - ati 5770

I am on a macpro quad 3.0 / 10 gigs ram /1,1/
Yesterday i installed a ati 5770 to replace my x1900. I did not have a displayport cable so i installed the 5770 in slot 1 and the x1900 (for other diplays) in slot 2 along with my BM Intesity. The 5770 has 16x lane and the 1900 has 1x.
I did the get info trick to get mercury on lion with cs6. Mercury is there and doing what i expect kinda.
However niether the source monitor or the sequence monitor will show the video.
It loads / it plays the audio / it drag to the timeline / it allows for filter and accepts edits. It does everything accept show the frames.
If i switch back to software it shows the video.
Has anyone seen this?

It also will show the video in mercury playback if i switch the source monitor to a mode like ycbcr and then switch back to composit it will show the video. Just discovered this.

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