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riofl:
yes. i switched the roles of the ports so dsp1/port1  becomes 'port0' and the problem stayed on port 1.. i switched monitors. same behavior.   i borrowed a gts250 card a friend has for about 10 min since it is his only vid card and the problem went away. both ports behaved fine at 1920x1200.  so it is located within the gpu circuitry. i called xfx and explained my tests and they agreed it was a gpu hardware problem. they've "seen it before".

sunu:
Is this the machine with the buggy tesla card? If the gtx285 doesn't have problems with seti crunching, you could decommission the tesla card, make the 285 a dedicated crunching card and get a new one to drive your displays + seti crunching. Or if you are lucky and your motherboard has 3 pci-express slots, get a low budget card for your displays and have the tesla and the 285 as dedicated crunching cards.

riofl:
i only have 2 pci-e slots... but yes my plan is to use the 295 that is due to arrive in the next 3 days as my primary vid card. the 285 gives no probs with cuda crunching and since port0 works fine and i have a 3rd monitor sitting in a box doing nothing i was thinking of expanding my desktop over 3 monitors. would be extremely convenient. the only reason i am even going to ship the xfx for repair is 1. lifetime warranty they have to satisfy me.. 2. i want it to work properly even if i never use the 2nd vid port... i may, but even if i dont i want it to handle 1920x1200 like it should. the 285 will replace the tesla ultimately, or whatever they agree to ship back to me. my only concern is if they will only replace it with a fermi.. in that case the fermi will become my primary dual monitor display and the 295 will do all the number crunching and drive the 3rd monitor until such a time as seti gets a linux fermi app. they did say there is some hope they can fix my card. they still have some parts inventory... only them seeing the card will tell.. i can also opt not to replace and have them ship the card back to me in worst case scenario.

sunu:
XFX doesn't have fermi cards.

riofl:
i dunno i may not ship it. this is looking more and more bleak to get any satisfaction out of xfx. as my 2nd card replacing the tesla, it does everything i will need it to do. port0 works fine and it number crunches fine, and although it would be nice to eventually go to 4 monitors that would just be greedy. i dont need 4. i dont even need 3 but since i have a spare monitor sitting in a box doing nothing i may as well use it. that way i can keep email and im clients (i get a LOT of msgs from both for my work) on screen on all desktops. i wouldnt really care except these monitors were expensive. all 3 are samsung 245bw and at the time of purchase they were $450 each so if i dont use it i am starting to feel like it is just wasting away (been in the box for almost 2 yrs already. i only opened it to verify it worked after receiving it). the 285 is a better performer than the tesla for cuda work and that is no slouch.

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