Hi,
Now that the 750D and 950D monitors have dropped significantly in price over the past month, I expect a huge increase in owners. I find it important to let people know the issues they could face when using these monitors.
The main issues that surround these monitors are all to do with the DisplayPort. We have pages and pages of threads on the Nvidia forums about these products, A good 6 months has passed and we are still no closer to receiving a proper fix.
The 950D isn't as badly affected due to it having a DVI-D connection, thus providing a workaround for the currently broken DisplayPort. If you want to get one of these monitors I strongly recommend spending the extra and picking up the 950D purely for the DVI-D port.
As for the 750D it only has 2 output sources, HDMI and DisplayPort. Meaning that you can only use HDMI, resulting in no 120Hz and no 3D.. so the main selling point and features of this monitor can't be used.
To get DisplayPort functionality working driver developers (ATI and Nvidia) have to use hacks in order to receive a signal in Windows. The results of these hacks have shown to be extremely random, working for some users but not others, Nvidia confirmed this by saying the following: 'Some users report fixed while others still seem to have issues. Will pass info to our software team.'. Keep in mind that even with a 100% working hack it's very likely you still won't receive any signal for the POST or BIOS screen, so should you want to do a task like install an OS you'll have to use an HDMI connection.
What we know so far:
- It's a problem on Samsung's side of the fence, due to the fact that most users get no DisplayPort signal at all, not even on the POST/BIOS screen.
- Nvidia responded to the issue with the following: 'So it seems the DisplayPort issue with the Samsung monitors reported is due to the fact that the DisplayPort on these monitors is reporting itself as a DisplayPort 1.2 even though it is really just a 1.1. We are sending 1.2 signals in the newer drivers that this monitor is not interpreting correctly because it is not a true DisplayPort 1.2 display. We still have not decided on a final resolution however at least I wanted to provide you all with the root cause that our software team has come up with so far. '.
- Samsung hasn't admitted any responsability for the issue, the best result people have been offered is a replacment, but that is no good due to it being a firmware / driver issue.. the same problem would only occur again.
- Ideally Samsung will need to acknowledge the problem and correct it in a Firmware update.
- The ATI hack seems to be much more effective, most of the users with no signal in Windows are Nvidia users.
- Some people receive signal in POST and BIOS screens, even with a DisplayPort.. but it seems pretty random, in the way that it can start working at any time, as well as stop working.
Thanks.
Now that the 750D and 950D monitors have dropped significantly in price over the past month, I expect a huge increase in owners. I find it important to let people know the issues they could face when using these monitors.
The main issues that surround these monitors are all to do with the DisplayPort. We have pages and pages of threads on the Nvidia forums about these products, A good 6 months has passed and we are still no closer to receiving a proper fix.
The 950D isn't as badly affected due to it having a DVI-D connection, thus providing a workaround for the currently broken DisplayPort. If you want to get one of these monitors I strongly recommend spending the extra and picking up the 950D purely for the DVI-D port.
As for the 750D it only has 2 output sources, HDMI and DisplayPort. Meaning that you can only use HDMI, resulting in no 120Hz and no 3D.. so the main selling point and features of this monitor can't be used.
To get DisplayPort functionality working driver developers (ATI and Nvidia) have to use hacks in order to receive a signal in Windows. The results of these hacks have shown to be extremely random, working for some users but not others, Nvidia confirmed this by saying the following: 'Some users report fixed while others still seem to have issues. Will pass info to our software team.'. Keep in mind that even with a 100% working hack it's very likely you still won't receive any signal for the POST or BIOS screen, so should you want to do a task like install an OS you'll have to use an HDMI connection.
What we know so far:
- It's a problem on Samsung's side of the fence, due to the fact that most users get no DisplayPort signal at all, not even on the POST/BIOS screen.
- Nvidia responded to the issue with the following: 'So it seems the DisplayPort issue with the Samsung monitors reported is due to the fact that the DisplayPort on these monitors is reporting itself as a DisplayPort 1.2 even though it is really just a 1.1. We are sending 1.2 signals in the newer drivers that this monitor is not interpreting correctly because it is not a true DisplayPort 1.2 display. We still have not decided on a final resolution however at least I wanted to provide you all with the root cause that our software team has come up with so far. '.
- Samsung hasn't admitted any responsability for the issue, the best result people have been offered is a replacment, but that is no good due to it being a firmware / driver issue.. the same problem would only occur again.
- Ideally Samsung will need to acknowledge the problem and correct it in a Firmware update.
- The ATI hack seems to be much more effective, most of the users with no signal in Windows are Nvidia users.
- Some people receive signal in POST and BIOS screens, even with a DisplayPort.. but it seems pretty random, in the way that it can start working at any time, as well as stop working.
Thanks.