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Old 18th February 2014, 19:11   #11
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Have you tried using a DVi cable instead of HDMI? Or the standard monitor cable (forgotten the name of it)?

When I use the HDMI cable on mine now I got all sorts of problems. (my card has three sockets)

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Old 18th February 2014, 19:14   #12
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I have never found pc's run through a TV very good unless you have a relatively powerful Graphics Card, like at lest Radeon 7800 Series. And even then they won't be as good as the same size Monitor.

Not only that there are 1080p TV's and 1080p TV's....

I would just go back to your old monitor, presuming it's a 22", and upgrade the Graphics Card.
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[QUOTE=clf;1581404]Have you tried using a DVi cable instead of HDMI? Or the standard monitor cable (forgotten the name of it)?
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VGA Cable....
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Old 18th February 2014, 19:23   #14
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Have you tried using a DVi cable instead of HDMI? Or the standard monitor cable (forgotten the name of it)?

When I use the HDMI cable on mine now I got all sorts of problems. (my card has three sockets)

check this GUY'S PROBLEM out too
VGA cable and no the card doesnt have one, it has a DVI, DP (display port) and a HDMI. was running the old card on HDMI with 1080p and no issues. maybe i missed something on the install or left something from the old card on my system?

All resolutions are the same, tried changing from 32bit to 16bit tried all the hertz seems always the same
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Old 18th February 2014, 19:25   #15
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Have you tried using a DVi cable instead of HDMI? Or the standard monitor cable (forgotten the name of it)?

When I use the HDMI cable on mine now I got all sorts of problems. (my card has three sockets)

check this GUY'S PROBLEM out too
I've never came across a TV that uses DVI so that'd be out of the question I'd imagine, and using vga wouldn't really do much either as HDMI is digital and if there was an issue on the cable you'd lose the picture completely
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i may take the pc into the living room and plug it into the 46" 3D tv
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I've never came across a TV that uses DVI so that'd be out of the question I'd imagine, and using vga wouldn't really do much either as HDMI is digital and if there was an issue on the cable you'd lose the picture completely
I am not 100% but I thought I have seen DVI on Bravia TV's in my old job, but there is a DVI to HDMI adaptor available. vga is an analogue signal, but does give you the ability to eliminate a socket issue

The solution given in the link, seems familiar to me, but it was not the same issue I had (screen image split into quarters diagonally opposed to where the image was supposed to be!)
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On board graphics was activated in the bios so just disabled it, it's a bit better so will fiddle with the settings again and see if that's solved the issue.
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Plugged it into the living room TV and it works perfect, so it's the 22" tv that's at fault. Will have to look out for a good second hand one.

Will need 3 of them eventually as this card supports eyefinity new games at extreme wide screen
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Plugged it into the living room TV and it works perfect, so it's the 22" tv that's at fault. Will have to look out for a good second hand one.

Will need 3 of them eventually as this card supports eyefinity new games at extreme wide screen
The card is nowhere near powerful enough to give pleasing results gaming - the resolutions required across 22 inch monitors would cripple it.
Also unless your card has a displayport out then you wont be able to enable Eyefinity-based display configurations

don't get me wrong you 'may' get away with something such as WoW but only on low quality and a lower resolution. on 17 inch monitors you will be running an eyefinity resolution of 3840x1024 which is about the maximum the card will manage.
5940x1080 on 22 inch monitors will murder it.
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