Maybe this is not the correct forum for this question but I am using XP Pro.
Yesterday I bought me a new LCD Monitor and a new ATI video card. The Monitor is a Samsung 21.3 inch LCD with a native resolution of 1600 by 1200. The Video Card is a ATI 9600SE with 128 megs of ram on the card.
The Samsung Monitor comes shipped with two data cables attached to the monitor. One is a regular analog 15 pin D-sub connector and the other cable is a DVI (Digital) connector.
The Monitor and Video card works great with the analog connection made up between the Monitor and Card.
What is this digital connection cable? On my video card I have a female connection that the digital cable will fit nicely into. I shut the computer down and turned it off and pulled the 15 pin and plugged in the digital cable. When I turned the computer and monitor back on, the internal speaker for the PC started sounding off not in beeps but like continuous. I cut everything off again and tried plugging both cables in. The same thing happened with the internal speaker continuous noise so I cut all off again and only hooked up the regular cable for analog connection, booted up and all was fine.
I then began to research the card instructions and the monitor instructions. The Card instructions shows the port that I am plugging the digital cable into is for flat panel DVI connector. The Monitor owners guide alludes to the DVI cable to be hooked up to your video card if the card has the port. While up and running on the analog cable, I plugged in the digital cable and rebooted XP as the Monitor Manual told me too and sure enough, the monitor indicated "Digital" rather than "Analog as it came up through the boot process to XP. So this can be used in this way.
The problem is if I keep both cables plugged in, and cut my machine off, I go through the speaker continuous beep on start up. Presently the only way I see for me to use the digital cable is to connect when already in XP then reboot. Somewhere I think I am missing something and any help would be appreciated. BTW, this Monitor is Huge and the detail of the resolution is great.
Thanks
Yesterday I bought me a new LCD Monitor and a new ATI video card. The Monitor is a Samsung 21.3 inch LCD with a native resolution of 1600 by 1200. The Video Card is a ATI 9600SE with 128 megs of ram on the card.
The Samsung Monitor comes shipped with two data cables attached to the monitor. One is a regular analog 15 pin D-sub connector and the other cable is a DVI (Digital) connector.
The Monitor and Video card works great with the analog connection made up between the Monitor and Card.
What is this digital connection cable? On my video card I have a female connection that the digital cable will fit nicely into. I shut the computer down and turned it off and pulled the 15 pin and plugged in the digital cable. When I turned the computer and monitor back on, the internal speaker for the PC started sounding off not in beeps but like continuous. I cut everything off again and tried plugging both cables in. The same thing happened with the internal speaker continuous noise so I cut all off again and only hooked up the regular cable for analog connection, booted up and all was fine.
I then began to research the card instructions and the monitor instructions. The Card instructions shows the port that I am plugging the digital cable into is for flat panel DVI connector. The Monitor owners guide alludes to the DVI cable to be hooked up to your video card if the card has the port. While up and running on the analog cable, I plugged in the digital cable and rebooted XP as the Monitor Manual told me too and sure enough, the monitor indicated "Digital" rather than "Analog as it came up through the boot process to XP. So this can be used in this way.
The problem is if I keep both cables plugged in, and cut my machine off, I go through the speaker continuous beep on start up. Presently the only way I see for me to use the digital cable is to connect when already in XP then reboot. Somewhere I think I am missing something and any help would be appreciated. BTW, this Monitor is Huge and the detail of the resolution is great.
Thanks
