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I just rechecked the hardware.fr review (to see something else)
and there's this slide we already saw : (first picture: can't link to it directly : http://www.hardware.fr/articles/770-10/dossier-amd-radeon-hd-5870.html )

if there's any truth to this slide(note the "output crossbar"), I wonder if the TMDS would be somehow dynamically attributed

so in our example, whatever the output, 2 TMDS would be used by any DVI screen (even though there's no need for 2 TMDS for DVI single link AFAIK)

even then, since there's 6 TMDS it should support 3 DVI ...

really I'm lost ...

I've just e-mailed our AMD/Ati rep at his AMD e-mail account, as he doesn't appear to have spotted my earlier PM. I just asked him to have a look at this thread to clarify matters and help with the issues you're experiencing, dazboots, so hopefully he'll be able to help soon. :)

Your a star m8 spent 5 hours trying to sort this out. the adaptor works because i can use that as main monitor. and works.
it shows 3 monitors in ati ccc 2 enabled can move them around do anything but third monitor shows as disabled. dont know why i can move 2 pictures over 3 screens but can not enable third monitor @ all no matter what. wonder if the card is faulty. dont think its the dongle it works :(

IMHO, sounds like a driver issue if the OS can see it but not enable it. Either bug or a configuration issue.

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Brad Hawthorne
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Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

I'm going to suggest something outrageous for a second.

Try one monitor on DVI, on on HDMI (HDMI->DVI adaptor) and one on the DisplayPort adaptor.

But really, I have no idea what the problem is. :(

Let's hope that Dave Baumann gets back to me/this thread quickly. :D

I've attempted to PM him here previously without answer, so I don't think he knows about PMs.

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Brad Hawthorne
Product Manager
Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

Well, let's hope that e-mail is a better way of getting in contact with him. :)

I'm going to suggest something outrageous for a second.

Try one monitor on DVI, on on HDMI (HDMI->DVI adaptor) and one on the DisplayPort adaptor.

But really, I have no idea what the problem is. :(

Let's hope that Dave Baumann gets back to me/this thread quickly. :D

Yup tried that can see windows on any 2 dvi ports and dp-dvi adapter.
even had them plugged in 1 @ a time. doing a reformat and going to try again. :(

dazboots, I know I'm off on a tangent a bit, but could you download and run this?: http://junk.kegetys.net/DXCapsViewer.zip

And post a screenshot of the caps menu tree like this?:


A few questions related to the card's capabilities can be answered for some of us by doing that. This isn't related to your current issue, but would be of great help to some of us attempting to figure out the capabilities of the card.

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Brad Hawthorne
Product Manager
Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

[quote]I'm going to suggest something outrageous for a second.

Try one monitor on DVI, on on HDMI (HDMI->DVI adaptor) and one on the DisplayPort adaptor.

But really, I have no idea what the problem is. :(

Let's hope that Dave Baumann gets back to me/this thread quickly. :D

Yup tried that can see windows on any 2 dvi ports and dp-dvi adapter.
even had them plugged in 1 @ a time. doing a reformat and going to try again. :(
So you used the HDMI port on the back of the card, the DP on the card, and one of the DVI ports?