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Gipionocheiyort:
Ok I accidently lied yesterday and I realized it when I did some more testing last night.

When I have the J-Pac hooked up I'm not getting the Windows chime on boot up...though I can see in Split Screen mode that it's getting past POST and loading Windows...it's just like when Soft15khz kicks in while attached to the J-Pac it keeps windows from booting.

Oddly enough though I seem to get the same results when I start the computer without a monitor at all or when I plug a cable in with nothing on the other side...so it's like my Video card is detecting that there isn't a monitor there and somehow keeping windows from loading.

I'm not sure why the computer doesn't seem to think that the J-pac behaves the same as a monitor...but I'm gonna play around with the BIOS and video card settings tonight to see if I can't disable whatever it's trying to do.
mvsfan:

--- Quote from: Gipionocheiyort on December 18, 2009, 10:32:49 am ---Ok I accidently lied yesterday and I realized it when I did some more testing last night.

When I have the J-Pac hooked up I'm not getting the Windows chime on boot up...though I can see in Split Screen mode that it's getting past POST and loading Windows...it's just like when Soft15khz kicks in while attached to the J-Pac it keeps windows from booting.

Oddly enough though I seem to get the same results when I start the computer without a monitor at all or when I plug a cable in with nothing on the other side...so it's like my Video card is detecting that there isn't a monitor there and somehow keeping windows from loading.

I'm not sure why the computer doesn't seem to think that the J-pac behaves the same as a monitor...but I'm gonna play around with the BIOS and video card settings tonight to see if I can't disable whatever it's trying to do.

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As a long shot, Check your monitor cable and see if any pins are broken. It almost sounds like your test monitor may have a broken pin.

You said it was a crt so its probably got some age on it.

I have the same problem, but with a different setup. I have a hybrid monitor that can display 640x480 and lower only. Thankfully, (with a test monitor,) i was able to force windows to 640x480 with the nvidia drivers. But my bios and my boot screens wont go any lower than 800x600. Never have been able to fix that problem.

also, before that, my test monitor also would not work. Turns out it had a broken pin.



Gipionocheiyort:
Thanks for the help guys....but the answer turned out to be something that you couldn't possible have guessed since I didn't give you the information that ended up being key.  Hopefully my idiocy can help someone else searching in the future.

What I didn't mention because it didn't seem important is that the Radeon card that I have in there is one of the ones with 3 outputs.  It's got the standard VGA, a DVI, and an HDMI.  On the test PC both DVI and VGA were working fine so I figured I would just stick with VGA and save myself having to have the extra adapter between the J-Pac and the PC....and never really thought of it again.

Tonight after a few hours of banging my head against the wall it occured to me to try the DVI port when the monitor goes blank....and sure enough that was the key.  Basically it looks like output is coming through both ports (maybe all 3?  didn't have anything with HDMI to test it) on boot until Windows kicks in.  Once Windows kicks in the card does some sort of auto-detect thing (that I couldn't figure out how to turn off in the ATI software) on the VGA port, and when it doesn't find a monitor attached to it (J-Pac doesn't register with it for some reason) it passes control over to the DVI.

So for anyone else who has this issue...basically the key is to use a DVI to VGA adapter.  I tried removing all of the ATI software except for the bare bones driver but the card still hit the auto-detect anyway....so if there's a better way to do it that doesn't require the extra adapter I don't know what it is at this point.

At any rate it's working perfectly now so I'm a very happy nerd for the time being.  Thanks again for the help.
bkenobi:
So I was sorta right.   :cheers:
Gipionocheiyort:
Yup Kinda/sorta.  Your reply is the one that got me thinking along those lines anyway.

Thanks!
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