Viewsonic VG2030wm not detected on DVI

I have this exact same problem. Can someone please help?

I'm having the same symptoms with a Viewsonic VX2233wm. I can run the monitor from my PowerBook G4 with its min-DVI to DVI adapter. The cable is single-link DVI-D. When plugged into the Macbook Pro, I get nothing. When I press the button on the monitor to change inputs to DVI, the MacBook Pro's screen goes blue as if the laptop is trying to initialise the screen, then gives up and goes back to my desktop. The Viewsonic monitor reports no signal.

Same thing happens if I'm running the 9400 or the 9600 GPU. I've reset the PRAM and the SCM and seen no change.

Did anyone get a solution? I have the same issue.

One possibility is a bad adapter. Try exchanging for a new one.

That's certainly a possibility, but in my case I've had this adapter working with other monitors.

I have the same problem with a 13" MBP + DVI adapter + Viewsonic vx2235wm (which is slightly older than the current generation viewsonic panels). It just will not detect the monitor at all.

The MBP will display fine on a Lenovo L2240p Wide which is also a 1680x1050 resolution monitor.

I'll try the VGA interface of the Viewsonic, but it's not an ideal solution.

I have exactly the same problem. I tried with another display and it worked but it did not with Viewsonic display, any help?

Sounds to me like you need to contact Viewsonic's customer support.

I had/have the same problem with a MacMini (with an Intel GMA 950), VG2030wm monitor and DVI cable. It worked fine with a VGA cable (but I had to use SwitchResX to pick the native 1680x1050 resolution).

I partially solved the problem (in Mac OS X 10.6) by unplugging both the MacMini and VG2030wm from the wall for 1-2 minutes (to reset the VG2030wm's settings?), and then resetting the MacMini's PRAM (by pressing and holding Command + Option + P + R while booting).

Unfortunately, I still have problems (black screen or native resolution not detected) when I restart o wake up the MacMini. The workaround I have found is to turn off the monitor (with the button on the front panel), wait a few seconds, and then turn it on again (and repeat) until the Mac Mini's picks up the monitor at 1680x1050 resolution.

I think there should be a way to force (instead of detecting) the EDID display information of the VG2030wm in Mac OS X by editing the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist, but I don't know how to do it (or if it's possible at all).

Hope it helps a little.

Regards,

Apparently the NVIDIA video cards that are in the 2009 MBP (GeForce 9400M & GeForce 9600M GT) and/or the Mini-DisplayPort to DVI adaptor don't work with (some? all?) Viewsonic monitors. After considerable searching of the Apple Support forums, I have found many people with the same symptoms, but no answers.

Between Apple, NVIDIA, and ViewSonic, you'd think someone would have figured this out by now. My Viewsonic monitor is only about 3 years old, but I've been told that there is no fix and I'll have to buy a new monitor.

Any help?

This appears to be mostly fixed for me with the update to 10.6.2. There's still some issue with the monitor not switching to DVI when there's also a valid VGA signal being fed into it (it looks like switching to the DVI input causes the Mac to start its "I've got a new monitor" sequence, but this takes too long and the Viewsonic monitor gives up and switches back to the VGA input) but if the Mac is the only thing connected to the monitor it will now work.

I am having a problem connecting to a Viewsonic VA2012wb with the new mini DVI adapter. The monitor worked well on an older MacBook with the DVI connector. I will try and get a mini dvi to DVI adapter if I can find one for my older DVI connector and see what happens. Any other ideas?

finally got the viewsonic working. it appears that one has to be absolutely certain the connectors are properly connected - an obvious first step which we sometimes take for granted as haveing been done properly in the first place.

Looks like I shouldn't have been crowing about it - it's now stopped working again. I've changed nothing. One day it was basically working, the next it's not.

This has been bloody frustrating. Along with a dead HD (replaced), loose hinge (does not warrant replacement), screws falling out (Apple only sels the screws to technicians in huge volume so they're hard to get) the aluminium pitting (not covered by warranty) and the once a day or so it hangs and needs restarting, this MacBook Pro has been an absolute lemon. I've been buying and using Apple computers since the Apple IIe and I've never had one as problematic as this.

I have just discovered exactly the same problem between my brand new macbook pro and my 3 year old VG2030wm : the screen used to work fine with my old macbook pro , with a normal DVI cable, but now it only works in VGA, via a mini-DVI to VGA adapter. And I have all the controls because at home I have a VG2032wm, which works just fine in DVI with the same cables. It is just the mini-DVI / VG2030wm combination that does not work. At the end of the day, I'll live with the VGA, but if anyone has a solution, I'd love to hear of it.
Thanks
Etienne