Radeon 4870 (100259-1GL) card rejects Mitsubishi MegaView (XC-3315C) Monitor

[dgame]

Monitor specs: http://vbp1.com/ecat/img/pdf/5268-XC3315CB.pdf

The Radeon  4870 is the 1024MB GDDR5, PCI Express 2.0 x16 version.
The Mitsubishi MegaView  is a presentation monitor that does 15-38kHz.

When I hook the MegaView Monitor to the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Video Card the PC refuses to boot.

I am connecting the MegaView monitor to the video card using and a BNC5 (RGBHV) to VGA cable with a VGA to DVI adapter.

The fan on the video card spins up and the PC gives out what sounds like video card error beeps. 

The 4870 video card works excellent on a LCD screen.

When I swap the 4870 with an ArcadeVGA card everything works perfectly on both monitor types.

Ideas or suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks.

[I/O]

Start it with a different monitor. Switch back.

[Jack Burton]

I have several Mitsubishi monitors like this one and for some reason the just don't like some video cards.  It seems random.  On some the computer wouldn't start, on some the computer would start but the monitor would never recognize the signal.

[dgame]

Thanks for the advice information.

The Radeon 4870 is an excellent card but apparently not for the monitor I want to use.
I did get a DVI-I to BNC5 cable to try but I already took the 4870 out.
Will try the cable when I get the chance.

I decided to go with the PCIe ArcadeVGA 3000 instead.
I already had the ArcadeVGA2 and the ArcadeVGA 3000 adds some basic 3D capabilities.

What I am planning now is to add a second [smaller] 15 kHz monitor to my setup.
This would be for the usual suspects Nintendo Punch Outs and PlayChoice-10.

I am aware that PlayChoice-10 are basically just NES games but I remember playing them in the arcades so in they go.


The top screen will be a small CRT monitor probably a 13" as I don't want it to be to heavy or unstable as it sits on top of the 33".
I was inspired by the TopHead Dual-Screen MadEditor posted about in the Main forum section:

The size ratio of my CRT screens are similar.

I have some ideas that will hopefully allow the marquee to be displayed on the top screen when single screen games are played.

The trick will be getting the ArcadeVGA to operate two 15 kHz monitors. I have two PCIe ArcadeVGA cards but only one PCIe slot on my motherboards.

EDIT: The trick will be getting two ArcadeVGA cards in one system to operate the two 15 kHz monitors.

[dgame]

I have dual screen working!

I used two video cards to drive the individual screens.

The Sony PVM-1342Q (13”) is the top screen ant the Mitsubishi MegaView XC-3315C (33”) is the bottom screen.  

The both operate at 15 kHz and Windows XP at 640x480.

In Windows I have the 13” placed [extended] virtually below the 33” although physically the 13” sits on top. This is to allow my Mala Layout to span both screens.

I made a 640x960 theme that has only the marquee on the bottom 640x480. Set Mala to open at 640x480 and you get the marquee on the top screen [physically] which is actually the bottom screen [virtually].

I have to stitch together some 640x960 pictures for the Mala screen saver to use as the current ones are stretched across the two screens.

When MAME starts it takes over both screens.

For single screen games MAME defaults to mirroring the game on both screens. This can be adjusted as you can run each monitor with settings independent of the other. For example Space Firebird doesn’t scale horizontally for me, so I can set the top screen to tate mode and turn it on its side to play the game. I can do bezels or whatever is available in the video options for the game.

I am experimenting with Mr. Do’s Marquee only MAME layout [using the artwork .lay system] for dual screens but it doesn’t seem to work for me yet: http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=182698