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I got my add2 card today pluged it in and got nothing, I then went into displays and told it to detect displays, my monitor went blank the second monitor attached to the onboard port did not come on.

 

I have 2 21" sony tubes I use a DVI to VGA adapter on my XP box with a Radeon card with no problems.

 

 

I added another drive and tried to do a fresh install, would come to a blank blue screen but I could see the mouse cursor and could move it off the screen on the left side.

 

What I think you have to have is a LCD panel that does have DVI, I dont think the converters work with the ADD2 board.

 

Can anyone with an LCD panel and DVI and an ADD2 card confirm if it works for you in a dual display mode.

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I recall reading somewhere that the Silicon Image Orion ADD2-N cards were DVI-D only, not DVI-I. So, no analog data. If I ever get a Dev Kit clone PC together, I'll try and buy one and see if it will work with my Apple 23" Cinema HD Display (via my DVI-to-ADC adapter).

Yeah dual monitor is fine, but if you need 2x-VGA you are in trouble unless you purchase a PCI card to drop in (so no qe and ci on that one), or put in some dual output PCI-e vid card, but again the same caveat. The ADD2-n stuff only outputs to DVI-D.

 

Wish they weren't so cheap at work....2 LCDs is nice, but both are VGA here. hehe

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Do any of you have a TV out/DVI card.. I'm looking around for a TV out option and it's down to either an ASUS ADD2 card with DVI and TV out or a VGA-TV converter breakout box...

Adding a second Video card is too expensive for me.

 

I'm looking to upgrade to LCD at some stage so the DVI is required for down the track, just want to confirm that "TV out" of the ADD2 card is supported by MacOS.

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intel 945 confirmed with add2 card. dvi-d and vga. as for you ledy, dont take my word for it but if its anything like my laptops vga/s-video card thats buil-in, you may have to short out a couple of pins to get either one to work.

intel 945 confirmed with add2 card. dvi-d and vga. as for you ledy, dont take my word for it but if its anything like my laptops vga/s-video card thats buil-in, you may have to short out a couple of pins to get either one to work.

 

Can you expand on this? Is there another post somewhere which talks about this sort of thing that I missed? I vaguely remember people talking about tweaking the pins on other posts but can't remember what the exact topic was.

 

Thanks.

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