Dead Monitor I was using a dual monitor graphics card - an ATI Radeon 9800 with two monitors. Both monitors (Sony Multiscan 200X and GDM-FW900) began to appear to degauss intermitently - zoom in/out. This went on for several days. Also, my computer would shut off by itself occasionally. This shutting off became more and more regular - every 10 mins or so. One of the last times I booted up my computer my GDM-FW900 monitor made a popping sound towards the back of the picture tube and quit working. My second monitor quit at the same time. I tried replacing the graphics card with another card and the second monitor started fine except it still did the zoom in/out(like degaussing) thing. The GDM-FW900 would not start up again. Shortly after this problem the computer quit altogether and it was determined that the CPU had overheated and died. I have since found out that the ATI Radeon 9800 graphic card still works! The question is - What hapened to the GDM-FW900 monitor and can it be fixed? Do I have to send it back to Sony?

Call of Duty 2 Minimum System Requirements
3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB hardware accelerator video card and the latest drivers*
English version of Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
Pentium IV 1.4GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1700+ processor or higher
256MB RAM (512MB RAM recommended)
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
4.0GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 600MB for Windows 2000/XP swap file)
8x speed CD-ROM or 2x DVD-ROM drive

Multi-player Requirements
Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported
Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers
LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers

Supported Chipsets
ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeon 9000
ATI Radeon 9200
ATI Radeon 9500
ATI Radeon 9600
ATI Radeon 9700
ATI Radeon 9800
ATI Radeon X300
ATI Radeon X550
ATI Radeon X600
ATI Radeon X700
ATI Radeon X800
ATI Radeon X850
nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
All nVidia GeForce 3/Ti Series
All nVidia GeForce 4/Ti Series
All nVidia GeForce FX Series
All nVidia GeForce 6 Series
**Recommend nVidia GeForce 7 Series or higher

Do your PC support the above hardware requirements?
The most common input no support would be your graphic card is not up to the mark to play the PC games.

Is your graphics card drivers up to date to the latest?
Have you updated your DirectX to the latest version?

Hope it helps.

Possibly conflicting with something or the card has failed or it could be a driver issue try & update the drivers if this doesn't work check in device manager if there is a yellow exclamation mark then there is a conflict somewhere, if driver update doesn't work & no conflicts are found your card has failed & will need to be replaced.

Use your AGP dual-video card for two and using a PCI VGA card for the third. It is best if the same manufacturer video driver is used for both cards, as two different ones could be problematic.

Make sure you download the latest drivers.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

have you ever seen the card work before. If not then its probably dead. I would contact whomever you bought it from asap.

hello...the way is try to open the Bios Settings then disable the on board video then set primary AGP/PCIE slot Video Card to run then try again to install the video card driver but 1st you need uninstall the old driver..thanks and Good Luck..have a nice day..^_^

Hi,

On my laptop, I have to press the Fn+F7 key to switch to use dual monitor. give it a try.

just look at your video card if it has at least a vga port and an s-video/composite or another vga port then yes you can do multiple display, if it has the s-video you can get an inexpensive s-video to composite adapter for those older tv's

ATI can get confusing. You might have installed ATI's CCC, "Catalyst Control Center", along with the display drivers. I suggest you download the latest combo-CCC and drivers for your video card. ATI comes out with new drivers pretty fast. When using dual monitors CCC is where you want to setup your monitors. After you set up the catalyst control center you'll find it much easyer to assign what monitor displays what. One other suggestion. ATI will want you to uninstall any other software for your ATI card even though all you have is ATI software.
Driver site: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
ATI's uninstaller utility: http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=1447

what you have the ATI card hooked up can you see the boot screen? If you can see that you might want to try going into safe mode and making sure your graphics settings aren't set beyond the capability of your monitor. If you can't see the boot screen then your card might be dead.

I have/had same problem. I have ATI Radeon display adapter and in driver settings there was adjustment for brightness. I adjusted that to minimum and now the brightness is pretty good (still little bit too bright, monitor setting 0%). Other succestions welcome...