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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.