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From: root on 12 May 2010 14:17
I have an Nvidia G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) card
which seems not to give me any output. I connected a
DVI->HDMI cable and I get no video during the bios
check and boot sequence. Right now this isn't a
linux issue because I get no output before lilo
even gets a chance to display.

Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?
TIA
From: Lusotec on 12 May 2010 15:18
root wrote:
> I have an Nvidia G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) card
> which seems not to give me any output. I connected a
> DVI->HDMI cable and I get no video during the bios
> check and boot sequence. Right now this isn't a
> linux issue because I get no output before lilo
> even gets a chance to display.
>
> Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?
> TIA

If you get no start up BIOS messages then the software is not the problem.
Maybe bad cable, bad card, bad monitor?

Regards.
From: JohnF on 12 May 2010 19:29
root <NoEMail(a)home.org> wrote:
> I have an Nvidia G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) card
> which seems not to give me any output. I connected a
> DVI->HDMI cable and I get no video during the bios
> check and boot sequence. Right now this isn't a
> linux issue because I get no output before lilo
> even gets a chance to display.
> Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?
> TIA

Can't answer your question, but I have a dvi problem
with an nvidia card that might or might not be related
to your problem in some way. What do you guys think?...
My i7-920 pc has an nvidia GeForce 9400GT video card,
and my older athlon 3400+ has an nvidia GeForce-FX-5500.
Both cards have both vga and dvi connectors.
And I also have two lcd monitors with both connectors.
So, you guessed it, I "cross-wired" both pc's to both monitors.
The athlon/FX-5500 works fine -- I can turn on either
monitor and it comes up fine (haven't tried both
simultaneously). But the i7/9400GT "prefers" the dvi
connector. That is, even when the dvi-wired monitor is
turned off, the vga-wired monitor just says "no signal" and
remains blank. If I physically remove the dvi connector
from the 9400GT, and reboot, then the vga monitor comes up.
And the dvi-wired monitor comes up fine even when both monitors
are connected. Is that standard behavior? If so, why does
the FX-5500 card work both ways? If not standard behavior,
what can I do to get the 9400GT working both ways? Thanks.
(Note: yeah, I swapped cables, with the same outcome.)
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From: Tecknode on 13 May 2010 15:35
On 05/12/2010 04:29 PM, JohnF wrote:
> root<NoEMail(a)home.org> wrote:
>> I have an Nvidia G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) card
>> which seems not to give me any output. I connected a
>> DVI->HDMI cable and I get no video during the bios
>> check and boot sequence. Right now this isn't a
>> linux issue because I get no output before lilo
>> even gets a chance to display.
>> Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?
>> TIA
>

First DVI is NOT = HDMI

Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

HDMI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), the signal is not the
same as standard digital video signal. So just having a cable does
not work.

A video card must have a HD output to use only a cable. If a video
card does NOT, then you need a HD Adapter to convert standard digital
to HD.

The actual manufacturer of the video card (GeForce 7300 GS = nVidia
GPU) provides the connections (VGA/DVI/HDMI/S-Video) and support, so
there is no one-shoe-fits-all.


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