Stupk

Hi,

Having a nightmare, just bought a new PC with a ATI Radeon 4670 card. This upon boot up starts off ok but then when loading up Windows (64bit Vista Home Premium) seems to knock out my monitor with a 'no signal' warning. My monitor is a ViewSonic VS11659 (VX2255WMB-3EU) which keeps flashing up a suggested resolution of 1680x1050 (which I assume is it's native).
Thought that the card was faulty so sent the PC back, it been returned to me as nothing wrong and works with loads of other TFT's on test apparently. Before I spend £300 on a new HD Widescreen TFT does anyone have any ideas? Can only get the PC to function if I disable the driver in safe mode but when going back into Safe Mode I can not force a manual change to the res as the card is not functioning?? (can only change the onboard card res)
Help appreciated

dai

what are you running
video card
cpu
m/board
ram
power supply
brand
wattage

check the listings in the bios for voltages and temperatures and post them

Stupk

Brand: MESH
Model: Elite Pro HD4670

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q8200 Quad Core Processor(2.33GHz,4MB Cache,1333MHz)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 64-bit - English
550W PSU + CardReader
ASUS P5QL Mainboard - Intel Core™ 2 Duo/ Quad/ Extreme - ATX
8GB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM - (4 x 2GB)
500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
1GB ATI HD4670 Graphics accelerator - DVI, DirectX 10.1 PCI Express 2
52-in-1 Multi-format Memory Card Reader (ATX)
7.1 High Definition onboard sound card - for 8 Channel Cinema sound
11x USB 2.0 Ports (6 ports at back panel, 5 ports at mid-board) - ASUS P5QL Pro
PCIe Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET 2 - ASUS P5QL Pro

Not sure how to access the info in the BIOS you mention, could you point me in the right direction? Help very much aprpeciated.

Stuart

emosun

Boot it in safe mode and set the resolution to the monitors native res.

Stupk

I can not change the screen res in safe mode for anything other than the onboard card which does not go upto the native res. As i'm in Safe Mode the drivers for the ATI were not installed so how can I select the res for the ATI card? I am sure I am just being a bit slow.....but I can't see how to do it? Do you think it could be the refresh rates are not compatible? Please help before I give up and buy another TFT!!

emosun

In that case hook up an old crt and boot it in normal mode. Crt's can support most resolutions and refresh rates , from there you should be able to set it to the new screens res and refresh rate.