[Skavan]

I don;t have a 380…butI had terrible troubles instlling a Multibridge Extreme PCIe card…until..I switched PCIe slots.

Looks like you have 1xPCIe-16, 1xPCIe-8 (wired as 4) and 1xPCIe-1.

Try taking your graphics card out of the x16 slot and putting it in the x4 slot (dunno if it will work that way). Then put the HDx in the x16 slot.

That’s what I did (except I was lucky in my 690, to have two x16 slots).

Everything seems to be working for me now.

s.

[Skavan]

The original “week” has been and gone…please, please can we have the new s/w???

thx.

[Skavan]

a) Link to Dell 690:
https://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_690?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&~section=specs#tabtop

b) Bios has been updated.

c) The card is sitting in a PCI-ex8 slot wired as x4.

d) The USB, PCIe and DVI cables are connected.

e) The dual-link DVI cable is connected to a Dell 30″ LCD.

f) a 1080i signal is being provided to the analog YPrPb inputs.

In stand-alone mode the 1080i signal is beautifully redirected to the 30″ DVI. Scaling works, interlacing works etc…

After many hours of jiggling, wiggling, reseating and powering things on and off, the PCIe connection has come to sporadic life (I also downgraded the drivers back a revision, to force a firmware downgrade).

Now, I can get the thing to boot, recognize the MBE (RS422, Dsplay and Audio drivers show up) – and the Control panel is no longer greyed out.

If, under display settings, I do NOT select the MBE monitor – then I can get the deck control utility to fire up and it shows (sometimes) the incoming video, for a minute or two. It then, mostly goes blank and won;t come back until a reboot is done.

When it shows the video in the Control window – the Dell 30″ comes to life and shows the same image (but when I lose the feed, I lose it on the Dell monitor too).

If, under display settings, i DO select the MBE monitor, then either:
a) NOTHING happens or
b) Sometimes the desktop wallpaper now shows on the Dell 30″ – but then the machine freezes.
c) Now – I’m not quite sure what should happen in this mode…:)

When you say the Dell is off spec- in what way? It is about as full featured as can be..!!!

Thanks in advance,

Suresh
Anyway – would love to get this up and running.

[Skavan]

I don;t know why you would see differences in favor of the Apple.
It’s the same LG LCD panel in different housin with trivial differences in firmware implementation – the Dell is latest version, and new Cinema 30’s also use this panel.