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I have a dvi cable that came with my monitor so naturally I hook it up, and it wont work, I have a Nvidia 7300LE, Is there some type of setting I need to set to enable DVI? Once I unhook the normal cable it goes black and no signal.....

Gunny

sure, you have to switch the monitor to DVI input

I assume this cable is DVI at both ends and not VGA to DVI or visa versa

If you are switching from a VGA cable and it had a DVI to VGA converter coming off the video card and the cable plugged into a VGA port on the monitor,.. deep breath.. and now you are switching to a DVI cable that plugs into a DVI port on the monitor, you have to use the monitor buttons to switch the input from VGA to DVI

that make sense?

Its VGA to VGA and DVI to DVI on the ends, The monitor selects digital and analog, but when I try to switch to analog it wont work, and when I pop the VGA cable off it wont even go into menus....

Gunny

Its VGA to VGA and DVI to DVI on the ends, The monitor selects digital and analog, but when I try to switch to analog it wont work, and when I pop the VGA cable off it wont even go into menus....

Gunny

The OSD menu on the monitor should work with a cable installed or not, even with a black screen you should get a menu box with settings control.

I dont know whats wrong. You want the input to be DVI

Perhaps post a link to the monitor manufacture so the manual can be looked at.. did you read the manual for the monitor?

I assume BOTH the video card AND the monitor has a DVI port on them (white with flat prongs) and not a VGA (blue/steel with pins) and the drivers dont need to be switched somewhere. I have bever seen anything like that on my NV cards. I think they are automatically DVI all the time and you use a VGA converter on the back of the card to go to a VGA cable when needed.

its an Acer AL1916 and I read the manual online and it said nothing for switching over etc, I have both cables hooked up from card to Monitor now but its running in VGA.

That user guide shows the menu for switching from ANALOG to DIGITAL  Page 5 and 6


Its part of the OSD as I said


Perhaps you have to get into the units OSD menu (using the buttons on the monitor) with the VGA and switch it to digital and visa-versa


Check the Windows display properties too.. if you have both cables hooked up at once, make sure it does not show a drop down for monitor 1 and monitor 2... 1 being the analog and 2 being the digital

If it does not show a drop down on the SETTINGS tab for the DISPLAY PROPERTIES, its only pushing one signal

and YES, get the monitor drivers installed. Always best to have those in the system but to swich from ANL to DVI you need to do it from the menu built into the unit as the guide shows

I run my tv as a second monitor so I unhooked that and instead of undetecting it, its still detecting it and the S-Vid adapter thing is physically unhooked, Also When I switch from Analog to digital the screen flashes, goes black and comes back and its still analog. I am about to just give up on it all togethor.

Gunny