Recent content by marklp

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    SLI One Card EXCESSIVLEY Hotter than the other.

    You might want to take a look and see if the fan on the GTX 460 card is turning. That high of a temperature at idle indicates either you fan is not turning or your heat sink is not in contact with the graphics chip. Also some of the GTX460 cards because of the cooling configuration do not do...
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    Why would my HDD be scoring so poorly in the Windows Experience Index?

    The number is normal for your hard drive. You need a raid 0 or a SSD to improve on that number. A good ssd alone will bring you up to 7.5
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    dvi cable length - no signal

    The DVI cable that you have is not as good as you think it is. What brand is it? What is the gauge of the wire in it? You mentioned that at 800x600 you get an image but not at higher resolutions. This is typical of a low quality cable. The bandwidth required for a 800x600 pixel resolution is...
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    Only 1280 and 1680 resolution...nothing in between?

    The issue is the EDID of the monitor doesn't have that as a supported resolution. I am sure your video card is able to support that resolution. What I would do is use the 1680x1050 native resolution of the monitor but make your fonts bigger. That's what I do. If you are using WinXP go to the...
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    dvi cable length - no signal

    Your video card is fine. There is no video card that sends out a stronger DVI signal. They are all the same. The problem is the DVI cable. The signal on a standard DVI cable is only good for about 3 meters. After that, you need a cable that has thicker wires. Sorry Monster cable is not the...
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    Need Help Connecting my computer to my HDTV Display.

    You can buy either a DVI-I or a DVI-D cable. They both should work, Buy the least expensive.
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    Monitor: No Signal?

    The video card gets the EDID information from the monitor. Normally it is read during boot up. If the graphics card fails to get the data from the monitor during boot a generic monitor driver will be loaded. The computer gets the EDID from the graphics card. Get the shareware program Powerstrip...
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    Connecting PC to LCD TV

    TV's have overscan designed into them because the originating source of video might have been from a analog source. The other reason is that the first few lines of video have information on them for closed captioning beginning on line 21. If this wasn't overscanned people would be complaining...
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    Connecting PC to LCD TV

    When a HDTV monitor sees a signal it considers a true HDTV signal it can not tell the difference between a output from a computer or a HDTV source such as a HDTV cable box or a BlueRay DVD player. Because of this it Overscans the image. For information on Overscanning see this...
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    Monitor: No Signal?

    I would try the following to solve your problem. If you are using a DVI cable try the monitor with a VGA cable. If your monitor works correctly and dosn't shut down then you mave have a bad DVI cable or the monitors DVI input is bad. DVI cables can be problematic if bent sharply, too long, or of...
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    Connecting PC to LCD TV

    No sound is avalible from your video card. DVI doesn't support it.
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    Connecting PC to LCD TV

    Congratz on getting your TV working. Your TV is overscanning and is normal when you are outputting HDTV. What I would try to do is send it a resolution that is the same as your TV's native resolution. The Fuzzed look is because your TV is scan converting from your incoming resolution to your...
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    Connecting PC to LCD TV

    You don't have to worry about hurting your TV when it is connected to your computer via the HDMI connection. The TV will send EDID data to your computer telling it what resolutions it will work with and will not allow you to send any thing else. Please note that you have to make the connections...
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    Odd display question

    Are you using the DVI or VGA input?
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    Problem using hdtv as monitor

    With the Nvidia Control panel there is no way to adjust timing values. However there is a program called RivaTuner http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner that should allow you to adjust timings. It is a powerful program and should be used with caution. Since you already are getting the...