I just bought a BFG 7900gt video card and when I put it in my computer and start it up there is no signal going to the monitor. The fan on the video card spins up and everything is plugged in correctly; however, the light monitor stays an amber color instead of turning green when there is a signal going to it. I upgraded from a bfg 7600gt and that card works fine in my computer. They both use PCI express so I know that is not the problem. I figured that my new video card was just DOA. But I talked to a guy who said he has seen it where newer video cards do not work with certain LCD monitors. I took this as a posibility and took the card with me to work and plugged it into a computer here at work. Sure enough it worked perfectly fine. The monitor I have at home is only a month old. I have two of them and neither one works when plugged into this card. The display type on the ones at my house are SXGA, and the display type on the dell monitors at work is Flat panel display/TFT active matrix. Anyone heard of something like this happening? Anyone know why it might not be working, what is it with a monitor that would make it not work? is it the display type or something else?
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