My nMP is finally cured with active monitor adapters!

After 5 months of struggling with my new Mac Pro, I can now declare that it is finally cured with a pair of active adapters. I used two monitors with my nMP and they are Dell and Samsung monitors. The Dell monitor was connected via an mDP-to-DP port cable and the Samsung monitor was connected with an Apple passive thunderbolt-to-DVI connector. I had the following problems:
1. Monitor did not wake up reliably when nMP woke up from the sleep mode.
2. nMP did not boot up reliably. Sometimes it would freeze while booting up. This could happen 5 times in a roll until I did SMC reset.
3. If I use the monitor in VGA mode, the screen blinked.
4. It did not enter sleep mode reliably in the beginning. (I found it was related to the issue between Spotlight and 2 external OWC HDs. So I excluded them from Spotlight search and the problem went away.)
AppleCare worked with Apple Engineering and collected logs/traces from my nMP twice. But they offered no solutions. I dealt with two Apple senior advisors for these issues, and had a feeling that they just wanted to avoid dealing with them. This was very different from a crash problem I had with a 2014 MBA laptop. The Apple senior advisor then followed up with me diligently until my problem with MBA was fixed.
So I posted my issues in MacRumors Forum. A guy in Europe told me that he had the same problems and the problem went away after he used active adapters. He thought the problem was related to the clocking issues between nMP and non-Apple monitors.
Since my problem was with the Samsung monitor, so I got an active mDP-to-DVI adapter. Guess what? The Samsung monitor was okay but the Dell monitor started to have problems waking up as well. So I got another mDP-to-DVI adapter and used the DVI port on the Dell monitor. Problem solved!!
Now my nMP has been working reliably for 3 weeks! GBA!!!

Many of the Studio displays were ADC. Are you sure that other port is really DVI and not ADC?
My 2004 MDD vid card has one DVI and one ADC connector. I have it connected to a Viewsonic display from about 2007 with both VGA and DVI ports. When I connect the DVI port directly to the DVI port on the G4, the native res looks good but it too small to read (old, tired eyes). If I change the desktop res to make things a little bigger, the image looks like carp--fuzzy and possibly some distortion.
If I use the DVI-to-VGA adapter on the computer and connect it to the monitor. the image is shape and proper at any support desktop res I select.
You mileage may vary.

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