hooked up my new 32" scenium via hdmi to dvi cable and not getting anything on my pc. it's hooked to my nvidia fx3500. but no matter what I do the nvidia control panel wont see it as a 2nd monitor. it does work (hooked up my hddvd to it for testing) and its set on the right input (hdmi 1). does this tv not work as a monitor?

thanks

Barring "operator error" or incorrectly configured hardware/ software (it is possible all is not right with the graphics card - latest drivers?) this could be the good 'ol:

"DVI won't work to HDMI" problem so many people have tripped over. Don't ask my why, for in all my digging I have never got to the bottom of it (BUT have serious suspicion that the "DVI" standard wasn't as standard as first thought).

However, one thing I did discover is that in many cases, Nvidea graphics chip sets suffered worse than almost any others. AVI chipsets on the other hand, usually worked.

My Matrox card refuses to O/P a DVI signal my telly can interpret. My steam powered, AVI chipset laptop, does.

The only real solution is to use a graphics card with HDMI O/P and HDCP.

That last one (HDCP) could also be implicated, if the telly has been configured to always expect a HDCP handshake, it ain't going to get it from a non HDCP compliant DVI port. No handshake, no picture.

Do check your drivers first before throwing in the towel - of course, I'm assuming in all this that any other screen hooked up to the card as second monitor DOES work? Anything at all just to prove it isn't a video overlay setting somewhere or similar.


CS