DVI-D and DVI-I???

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I have just gotten a 2nd hand MSI GTX660 Twin Frozr card, which has

1x HDMI
1x Display Port
2x DVI

I am wanting to connect 3 displays up to this card for a project im doing, (DVI x2 and a HDMI input) but have noticed that im not getting a display from one of the DVI ports, i had swapped the displays around and they only work in this one DVI port, so i know its not the cable or the display itself.

Upon closer inspection of the manual it appears these DVI ports are slightly different, 1 is DVI-D and the other DVI-I!. Should both of these DVI standards be compatible with an bog standard DVI cable or do i need to get a special cable??
 
Hmm, well both Nvidia CP and Windows Display properties doesn't recognise whatever monitor i have plugged into this DVI socket.

Could it be that the 6 series GTX's dont like having 2 digital inputs used at once?, in this case the HDMI and DVI-D ports??
 
There might be a limit of what connectors you can plug in at rhe same time.

Does the DVI socket work when it's the only display connected?
 
The 660 should be capable of running displays from all 4 outputs at the same time. Are any of the displays you're running higher than 1920x1080@60Hz? Are the monitors you're connecting the same as the GPU output you're using - so 2xDVI + 1 xHDMI or are you using any adapters/converts to use other monitor inputs?

If you have just the one DVI monitor attached to the potentially faulty DVI socket, do you get anything come up at BIOS/POST, or during Windows boot? If not, swap that same cable to the other DVI port and try again. If it works on one DVI port, but not the other during POST, then that to me says faulty DVI output on the GPU.
 
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