Hi guys just wondering if anyone can help me.

I bought myself a new monitor and my new monitor will now support DVI, as I had to use VGA on my old monitor. Now whenever I get to my windows logon screen my screen loses signal with my DVI. Though it still works fine when I use my VGA. Obviously I want to fix this to get a better looking res I have also tried updating my gfx card but nothing...

 

Specs:

2.33ghz Quad Core

4gig ram

windows 7 x64 ultimate

Gigabyte GTX 260

monitor failure?

monitor failure?

 

^^^

 

More likely than the alternative. If you can try with a different graphics card to rule it out that would be best.

Need the info...

 

What model/brand monitor ?

What gfx card and what exactly are you using to connect the 2 ? dvi to vga cable or a hdmi to hdmi to dvi dongle etc etc.

Can you see the login screen if you boot in safe mode ?

What res and refresh are you setting ?

 

 

:hi:

 

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-change-windows-7-logon-screen/

http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/03/15/windows-7-to-officially-support-logon-ui-background-customization/

 

Might help.

Edited April 13, 201015 yr by Shifty.au

Go back to a CRT pos 1024x768 and watch your pwn increase. You don't believe me but I wouldn't be running a CRT just for the prettiness

No no, its probably just something simple, go in with VGA while you have both your VGA and DVI plugged in. Setup in your screen properties so that your DVI is your main output.

 

It might just be that your drivers don't do what you would normally expect and use the connected monitor, it is probably still telling windows to send the screen output to the VGA connection and not the DVI.

 

Using windows 7, right click screen and go to "Screen Resolution" you will see a "Display" drop down box, I am hoping you have an alternative selection in that. Click ok and than click the switch inputs button on your monitor.

 

Good Luck!

No no, its probably just something simple, go in with VGA while you have both your VGA and DVI plugged in. Setup in your screen properties so that your DVI is your main output.

 

It might just be that your drivers don't do what you would normally expect and use the connected monitor, it is probably still telling windows to send the screen output to the VGA connection and not the DVI.

 

Using windows 7, right click screen and go to "Screen Resolution" you will see a "Display" drop down box, I am hoping you have an alternative selection in that. Click ok and than click the switch inputs button on your monitor.

 

Good Luck!

 

Not entirely sure what to choose, It's not showing up a Digital display... :\

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/4355/displays.png

 

I have both cables plugged in..

 

 

 

Loving the sarcasm guys......:disgust:

It wont matter which dvi plug you use on the gfx card if you only have one cable and one monitor plugged in

Now what res and refresh do you have set and what is the monitor

With only the dvi cable plugged in "identify" your monitor and set that as your primary. Turn off spanning (extend your display) .

Some cards will detect a cable plugged in even if its not connected to a monitor.

Its only the login screen that doesn't display ?

 

:hi:

Edited April 13, 201015 yr by Shifty.au

Ok thanks for the help guys.. I kind of figured it out, while I had both plugged in I went to nvidia control panel and selected that it only use DVI at all times. So it now does also when I go into my nvidia control panel from now on it loses connection with the monitor..