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| Thread ID: 117075 | 2011-04-01 07:27:00 | Catalyst Control Center won't use 3 screens | Civic (15464) | Press F1 |
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| 1191115 | 2011-04-01 08:46:00 | My card doesn't say Eyefinity Edition but on the Gigabyte box it came in it says AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology. Turning off CrossFireX didn't change a thing. This may is more likely. Well here's my position now I guess. If it helps I could provide the info for the mini dp to HDMI adapter, possibly revert the CCC software to the stage where it was more like the one in that video I linked, if those don't work maybe buy a actual mini DP to HDMI cable (or to DVI) or get a mini DP to DVI adapter/cable Ideas?? |
Civic (15464) | ||
| 1191116 | 2011-04-01 08:47:00 | Did you read the link? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1191117 | 2011-04-01 08:53:00 | Yeah I did, I thought you caught it in the "This may is more likely" Yeah its pretty similar to my problem, except mine all run the same res and have similar ports and screen sizes, so maybe its the adapter?? Thats the third cable/adapter I've tried to get this going :| |
Civic (15464) | ||
| 1191118 | 2011-04-01 08:58:00 | Did you click on the links to the adapters in that llnk? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1191119 | 2011-04-01 09:03:00 | I hadn't seen that Accell one before but I've seen that AMD dongle one already today. By the sounds of one of the videos I was watching they're kinda expensive and the one I got was ... $15 so I take it that its passive and I need to get an expensive one? |
Civic (15464) | ||
| 1191120 | 2011-04-01 10:30:00 | I have a 3 screen setup on ATI, here is why it won't work. You can only have a maximum of 2 legacy displays for a 3 screen setup, a legacy display is any one of - VGA (or D-SUB), DVI, or HDMI. If you want to have 3 screens you need to either get at least one monitor with displayport connection, or get an active displayport to legacy adapter. The reason is, there is only 2 ICs on the video card for outputting to legacy displays, because ATI has to pay a licence for each legacy connection, they only include 2. Displayport is royalty free, so they can go hard and put as many as they want on there, but to lower the cost of the cards they have to limit the number of lagacy connections available. Some manufacturers build in the legacy IC to the displayport, which is why passive adapters are available, and they will work, just not with a radeon, an example is the newer iMacs, they only have displayport now. You can get active displayport adapters from Playtech for around $100 (single link) the dual link ones are about $200 if you need resolutions greater than 1920x1200, I have an active dual link from HP but it over heats occasionally which is annoying, you may be better off going for an active single link, they also don't reguire a USB port (the dual link does). |
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| 1191121 | 2011-04-01 10:36:00 | Did I not state previously in this thread?? Hmm oh well, one of the monitors is already running a HDMI cable with a HDMI to miniDP adapter (as my GPU doesn't have a DP), but even so it is not working, although as some have stated it might be because it is a passive one and not active. Could you provide a link for the single link please?? I've found one from Paradigm PCs but haven't traded with them before so I'm kinda cautious of them. www.pp.co.nz |
Civic (15464) | ||
| 1191122 | 2011-04-05 08:04:00 | Ok its working now, thats to everyone that offered help :) Yeah I needed an active mini display port adapter ... too bad I had to go through a couple cables in the process but at least its over now. |
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