While playing with some old kit I noticed there's a problem with the latest wave of Nvidia drivers.
They don't seem to negotiate a HDMI/DVI Digital connection correctly and fall back to VGA. The results of this are either
- garbled display
- monitor goes into standby (no signal)
- display uses VGA
I did some searching and there are a lot of posts with all three of the above problems.
Here's the interesting thing though. Under Linux you can force the driver to negotiate DVI-D (DFP) as a priority.
This works fine and perhaps highlights an error in the way the driver logic negotiates a signal on startup.
My question is, can you do this on Windows? (force DFP only)
They don't seem to negotiate a HDMI/DVI Digital connection correctly and fall back to VGA. The results of this are either
- garbled display
- monitor goes into standby (no signal)
- display uses VGA
I did some searching and there are a lot of posts with all three of the above problems.
Here's the interesting thing though. Under Linux you can force the driver to negotiate DVI-D (DFP) as a priority.
This works fine and perhaps highlights an error in the way the driver logic negotiates a signal on startup.
My question is, can you do this on Windows? (force DFP only)