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May 16th, 2005 19:00
DVI Recovery file
What's the deal with this? I've seen a couple of posts where the file is emailed by a moderator. I've called Dell and they don't know what I'm talking about. What do I have to do to get the file? Has anyone out there that has used it have success? The problem is connected via dvi the monitor goes into power save mode. I have an nvidia geforce something.
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May 16th, 2005 22:00
Here's the thread started by a Dell Moderator "click here". It also contains different users solutions.
Excerpt from one of the Moderator’s posts:
"The DVI Recover utility attempts to correct corruption within the flat panel monitor's Extended Display Identification Data (EDID). In other words, the utility tries to fix a problem within the monitor itself. The video drivers must be updated to prevent EDID corruption after the monitor has been fixed."
(Note: the DVI Recover Utility is meant for nVidia video cards, only)
Excerpt from user's posts:
Forum Member: AndyStMc
"... What you need to do is run the fix 3-4 times and then reconnect the DVI cable, power on the monitor but NOT the machine. Once you have done this push the factory reset button (return to factory setting through the on screen menu) on the monitor, sometimes this is a button on the monitor other times it is through the on screen menu on the monitor. The monitor has to be powered on and have the DVI cable plugged in for this to work.
Might not work for everyone but so far I have done this on 6 monitors for friends who have suffered this problem and every time I have had to do the factory reset to make the fix work. Also apply the new drivers as soon as you have got the machine working again or the problem re-occurs very quickly. Within 10 min on one of the machines I fixed.
Forum Member: someday753
They sent me a new monitor. It didn't work. They sent me a new video card NVIDIA RevA02. My old monitor immediately woke up after 5 months after putting in the new card. It is not a monitor problem. It’s a video card problem. Everyone have them send you a new card first not a new monitor. It’s not the monitor. I sort of have to laugh at the complicated fix they posted. But it could be a combination of things. I did download the drivers they recommended. But for my problem the DVI utility wasn't the fix as they so loudly advertised.
Forum Member: RFiner
"...It appears that the "new" NV 5200 graphics card has a later BIOS that does not corrupt the EDID data stream, so the perpetual "power save mode" problem doesn't recur. The specific Dell part number that worked for me, and apparently others, was 9Y452. Although another post said the board was labeled "Rev 02", the sticker on my board said "Rev A01". The part number, however, was correct. It is important to make Dell tech support understand that they should not ship another "G00001" as the part number."
Forum Regular: talmy
The DVI_recover is only for the problem with Nvidia cards, not ATI cards. The 2001FP doesn't use the second link so a dual link cable isn't useful. OTOH, there certainly are better cables out there than what Dell ships, and a better cable would certainly help with the data rate problems observed with the ATI cards.
DVI Recover Utility download ("click here")
I use this for the "ati2dvag.dll" infinite loop/black screen/DVI
powersave mode problem, but if you can boot to "Safe Mode"... you might want to try this.
Right-click My Computer and select Properties/Hardware tab/Device Manager/System.
Right -click your "CPU to AGP Controller" and select Update Driver.
Choose "Install from a list or specific location", choose "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install", choose "PCI Standard PCI-to-PCI Bridge”, then reboot and see if you can make it to the Desktop. Although you won't have AGP acceleration... run it like this for a while, before you change it back to your "CPU to AGP Controller". This has worked for me... with a few ATI Radeon/WinXP systems. I haven't needed to try it with an nVidia/WinXP system, yet.
Aloha,
Rod