Are there different types of DVI?
 

My wife got the samsung 305T 30in monitor from pokerstars a few days ago. We tried hooking it up to our computer which has a somewhat older video card radeon x300 series http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx300/specs.html which has a DVI port on it. It will display the command line stuff and dell splash screen but when windows loads up I just get repeated red, green, blue, white, black colors and no desktop.

The documentation says the 305T needs something called "DVI-D Dual Link" compatible video card. I did some searching around and I couldn't really figure out the difference between the different DVIs... The website above for my radeon vid card says it's DVI 1.0 compliant.

So pretty much I just need a new video card? I looked at wikipedia about DVI and it said nothing about 1.0 etc... it was all DVI-D, -A, -I etc

Thanks
WoT

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My wife got the samsung 305T 30in monitor from pokerstars a few days ago. We tried hooking it up to our computer which has a somewhat older video card radeon x300 series http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx300/specs.html which has a DVI port on it. It will display the command line stuff and dell splash screen but when windows loads up I just get repeated red, green, blue, white, black colors and no desktop.

The documentation says the 305T needs something called "DVI-D Dual Link" compatible video card. I did some searching around and I couldn't really figure out the difference between the different DVIs... The website above for my radeon vid card says it's DVI 1.0 compliant.

So pretty much I just need a new video card? I looked at wikipedia about DVI and it said nothing about 1.0 etc... it was all DVI-D, -A, -I etc

Thanks
WoT

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If you scroll to the bottom of this page it will give you visuals on what the different DVI ports look like.

Basically the 'slanted' pins need to be in one large group, not multiple groups. That would be dual DVI. And older card probably is Single Link. Therefore, yes, you would need a newer video card.

HTH.

Re: Are there different types of DVI?
 

good news is you can upgrade pretty cheaply.

Re: Are there different types of DVI?
 

www.wikipedia.org is very good on dvi.

Re: Are there different types of DVI?
 

Thanks guys.

btw i found wikipedia less than helpful for me. or perhaps it's radeon's site that was lacking. wiki showed me 3 "types" of dvi and none of them were matching up to the radeon site.

anyway i'll snag a new vid card. gracias

Re: Are there different types of DVI?
 

can you link to the radeon site page you are viewing?

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can you link to the radeon site page you are viewing?

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It's in the OP........

Re: Are there different types of DVI?
 

I don't see any pictures in the link of the OP, that isnt even a specific card, that is just the GPU it is discussing.