8600GT & LCD Problem

medicnick83

medicnick83

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Hi all,

I just encountered a really weird problem.

I sold a graphics card (XFX 8600GT) to a guy about a month or so back.
Now, I'd like to try help him fix this problem.

He has come back to me now and again saying he is having problems with the card on his LCD (at the time I didn't know the size of the LCD)

Anyways, it turns out the graphics card doesn't work properly on a 27" Proline LCD but works fine on a 19" LCD (which I have and which he managed to test it on)

Basically, it works on the windows standard driver, if he installs the Forceware driver then when you restart, the monitor goes into standby.

If he boots into safe mode, it displays, but as soon as he changes to any 16bit etc, it turns off.

So... long story short, the graphics card works great (PHEW!) but has anyone ever heard of this problem? any solutions? ideas? thoughts?

**I've suggested he lower the refresh rates, he says he has done this and it didn't help.
 
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Something more powerful than the 8600GT?

It's not as if the card itself is a crappy card... If it was maybe say, a 6200, I'd understand, maybe even a 6600GT, but a 8600GT?

Nee man! strond! haha.

**I mean, the freaking card can handle Crysis on HIGH - why can't this stupid 27" LCD handle it?
 
Hows it, I had the 27" LCD running on a 6200 256mb and a Radeon 9250 128mb with the proper drivers installed and running various games.
I doubt it's the "power" of the card. I even ran it on the crappy on-board S3 graphics no problem. Before loading the foreware drivers I can runs the card on 1024x768 with 32bit colour no problem (VGA compat driver), install the proper drivers and it goes to standby.:eek:
 
feo said:
Did he try older versions of Forceware drivers?
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Yep, tried that as well. 3 older versions of forceware. Tried it on Vista 32, Vista 64, and XP 32, with forceware drivers, same problem.:confused:
 
gdiza said:
Something more powerful than the 8600GT?

It's not as if the card itself is a crappy card... If it was maybe say, a 6200, I'd understand, maybe even a 6600GT, but a 8600GT?

Nee man! strond! haha.

**I mean, the freaking card can handle Crysis on HIGH - why can't this stupid 27" LCD handle it?
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This is both funny and painful to read..man I have to get rid of my 8600 GT
Sidenote: I can run Crysis at high at 1024x768 or 1366x768, with higher resolutions than that it goes into slideshow mode.. :(
 
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Sounds like the monitor is going into standby because of an incompatible res maybe.

Can you find the max res on the net and set it to that when you boot into safe mode?
 
gdiza said:
Yeah, this is a very good idea - maybe try this Bankai.
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I have tried that, I boot into vga mode, select 800 X 600 (which is lower than the max) with a 60 Hz and 16bit, click apply and the goes into stanby. Basically as soon as I use anything offered by the graphic card driver it goes into stanby: these are the specs of the LCD:

Display Size: 27" diagonal

Resolution: 1366 x 768 pixels

Pixel Pitch: 0. 1460 (H) �~ 0.4365(V)mm

Response Time: 8 ms (Gray to gray average)

Number of color: 16.7M

Brightness: 500cd/‡u (typ.)

Contrast Ratio: 1000 : 1 (typ.)

Viewing Angle: H: 176/176 (CR�†20)

Backlight: 14 CCFL

Consumption: TBD

Speaker: 5W*2

PC Interface: D-Sub, Audio in Audio out

Video in & HDTV Interface: CVBS (RCA Jack 1), S-Video (Mini Din),

Component (YPbPr), SCART1, SCART2

Audio in Interface: Component in, CBVS/S-Video,Scart

Audio ou Interface: 1 set of L/R RCA Jack out

I have a 500w PSU, MSI board, Core2 Duo, 2GB 667MHz, SATA2 HDD.
Creative Audigy SC.
 
Update:

I removed the card and used a Gigabyte Geforce 7300GS PCIx,
booted up, windows installed the same 169 forceware drivers,
changed the res to max 1366 X 768 32bit, and no problem
what so ever on the 27" LCD. I think it's safe to say it's a
problem with the card. I'll take it to the suppliers
tomorrow and have them test it. :(
 
Since when can a 8600gt handle crysis with high settings at any resolution and still be playable ?
 
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