quietglow Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Hello, if you have an ATI X1XXX and an Apple Cinema Display, could you please post your experiences with the combo? I have a 23" CD and both an MSI x300 and a sapphire X1600xt. With my X300, I get "posting" info and a bios screen at startup as normal. With my x1600, though, I get no display from the DVI port in OSX--even after booting. In windows, I don't get video until the driver loads--after the Windows boot screen. In other words, I have a blank display until the windows login screen (no bios text etc.) VGA out on the card works normally--I get the bios screen erc. This is apparantly a well known problem with the X series cards and many instances of people complaining show up in a google search. Apparantly there seems to be a problem in the card firmware which doesn't allow dvi out until a driver is loaded. I'm very concerned that this may mean that my particular card is unusable with my Cinema Display in OSX--it seems that if OSX doesn't find the screen immediately, it wont work later. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17747-ati-x1xxx-and-cinema-display-please-read/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
quietglow Posted May 18, 2006 Author Share Posted May 18, 2006 FWIW, I just got off the phone with ATI tech support and they said I can forget it: the x1600 and maybe x1800 cards are incompatible with the 23" CD. Damn that really sucks, and I bought it used so I can't even return it. Careful buying an X1xxx card if you have a CD. If anyone wants to trade this card (Sapphire 1600xt) for another PCI-e/DVI card, PM me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17747-ati-x1xxx-and-cinema-display-please-read/#findComment-115151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moss Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Hi do you have the new cinema display aluminium??? I f you do i had the same probleme with my card ati radeon xt 850 pe connect 3D with 2 dvi outputs no vga and i switched both and it works with WIN XP AND MAC OS X 10.4.6 with koverg patch CE QI supported no resolutiuons Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17747-ati-x1xxx-and-cinema-display-please-read/#findComment-115178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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