Computer/Monitor Issues

[R22B]

I recently decided to move my gaming rig from my office into the living room with a westinghouse 47" monitor so I can rock my driving games. Yes, I have a little racing seat hooked up to pedals and a wheel.

I originally had the computer hooked up to a viewsonic 19" monitor. It was working great. I unplugged it, hooked it up in the living room and now nothing. It works fine on the little monitor but nothing appears on the 47" monitor.

I've tried DVI to HDMI and straight DVI to DVI hookups and nothing. Tonight, I'm going to pull one of the video cards to see if there is something wrong with running sli and running the 47" monitor. I tried all outputs on both video cars and nothing. I even tried the stupid S-Video outputs... lol.

Computer Specs attached.

Any insight would be appreciated, thanks.

[Vypurr]

Try first plugging the 19" in, and dropping your resolution down to 800x600. Next plug in the 47". If it works, it means that the resolution that your computer was set to originally for the 19" was higher than the 47" can display! That is the most common problem I have seen in this situation!

[R22B]

Originally Posted by Vypurr

Try first plugging the 19" in, and dropping your resolution down to 800x600. Next plug in the 47". If it works, it means that the resolution that your computer was set to originally for the 19" was higher than the 47" can display! That is the most common problem I have seen in this situation!

Max resolution on the 19" is 1280xsomething... Max resolution on the 47" is like 1980xsomething lol. I'll try it anyways. I'm hopeless at this point.

[fballman1987]

its prolly because of your iphone... haha.

[terrorcel]

Bring the 19" to the living room and hookup the 47 as a secondary monitor. Then play with the resolutions until the 47 displays. Wouldn't hurt to see if you can get drivers for the 47 just so your comp knows what resolutions it will and will not support. Best of luck. I just did that with running my 42" at work as a secondary to the laptop, wouldn't display under alot of resolutions until I got it dialed in just right.

[R22B]

Originally Posted by terrorcel

Bring the 19" to the living room and hookup the 47 as a secondary monitor. Then play with the resolutions until the 47 displays. Wouldn't hurt to see if you can get drivers for the 47 just so your comp knows what resolutions it will and will not support. Best of luck. I just did that with running my 42" at work as a secondary to the laptop, wouldn't display under alot of resolutions until I got it dialed in just right.

I originally tried to run in dual monitor mode. It would recognize the monitor but nothing would show on it. I tried multiple resolutions. Everytime I hit “extend my screen to this monitor” or “use as main display” the monitors in display settings would just become grayed out.