Need a new monitor for MacPro 5,1 ATI Radeon HD 5770 running Snow Leopard

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Need a new monitor for MacPro 5,1 ATI Radeon HD 5770 running Snow Leopard

Please can anyone suggest a new monitor for a Mac Pro 5,1 Late-2010, Dual Processor 2.4 Ghz with the shipped ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card, running Snow Leopard?

I know this may be asking to fit a square peg in a round hole, but I like the setup as it is. I understand Photoshop CS2 and CS5 pretty well, as a photographer. A higher OS would obsolete those and other programs. The Lacie Electron Blue 19" CRT that I have been using for years is going fast, so I need to replace it with something in a flat screen that can take advantage of the graphics card's capabilities, but will be nicely resolved for photo editing.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much,

Bill

Posted on Dec 18, 2020 12:54 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 18, 2020 1:03 PM in response to ErsatzPlacebo

Any display up to 2560 by 1600 maximum resolution, and you can support up to three displays simultaneously.

Interfaces provided are Dual-Link DVI-I and Mini DisplayPort(2). Mini DisplayPort can be adapted to almost anything you can buy today, but best operation is via Mini DisplayPort or Full size DisplayPort. (HDMI is for HD TV sets, and it trouble above 1920 by 1080).

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Answer 2

Dec 18, 2020 1:46 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks Grant,

I bought a Viewsonic VP2768 from Best Buy the other day, which came equipped with a display port-to-mini display port cable, which I used to hooked it up to my Mac Pro. There was almost zero result, with only a tiny message popup saying "No Signal Detected" and then it went black. I even called and talked to Viewsonic tech support for an hour about it. Turns out the guy was working from home and using the exact same Mac Pro as mine, only with a later OS. We could not figure out why the monitor was acting that way, and not displaying properly. So he had no ideas and suggested I return the monitor. Given Best Buy's narrow window for such things, I did return it.

Now I am at a loss as to what to buy, not trusting whether anything will work, or my ability to suss out the reason it might not be working.

I appreciate your stab at this, but I'm still in a mess, I think.

Bill

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Answer 3

Dec 18, 2020 2:04 PM in response to ErsatzPlacebo

That ViewSonic SHOULD have worked, if not defective.

To get a Mac display to become active, you need the Mac to query the display, and the display to answer with its name and capabilities. Otherwise, the display will not be shown as present, and no data will be sent to the display. "No signal detected" is generated by the DISPLAY, not by the Mac.

This query is only sent at certain times:

• at startup

• at wake from sleep

• at insertion of the Mac-end of the display-cable, provided everything on that cable is ready-to-go

• on invoking Option-(Detect Display) button in Displays preferences (from another display)

so try doing some of those things and see if the display comes alive.

Modern Displays with multiple ports are sometimes busy scanning the other ports, looking for an input, and miss the query from the Mac. They need to pay attention to the port you are actually using, or they will miss the query.

Some displays have On-Screen Display settings that can be used to tell the display a computer is attached on a certain port, or a certain port should be highest priority. Changing those may make your display more responsive.

Some displays include their own private "sleep" settings for the display alone. This can allow the display to enter its own sleep mode, on top of the Mac's not sending it data. A display that is sleeping on its own cannot respond to the Mac's query, and will stay dark.

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Answer 4

Dec 18, 2020 2:05 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

to get a Mac display to become active, you need the Mac to query the display, and the display to answer with its name and capabilities. Otherwise, the display will not be shown as present, and no data will be sent to the display.

This query is only sent at certain times:

• at startup

• at wake from sleep

• at insertion of the Mac-end of the display-cable, provided everything on that cable is ready-to-go

• on invoking Option-(Detect Display) button in Displays preferences (from another display)

so try doing some of those things and see if the display comes alive.

Modern Displays with multiple ports are sometimes busy scanning the other ports, looking for an input, and miss the query from the Mac. They need to pay attention to the port you are actually using, or they will miss the query.

Some displays have On-Screen Display settings that can be used to tell the display a computer is attached on a certain port, or a certain port should be highest priority. Changing those may make your display more responsive.

Some displays include their own private "sleep" settings for the display alone. This can allow the display to enter its own sleep mode, on top of the Mac's not sending it data. A display that is sleeping on its own cannot respond to the Mac's query, and will stay dark.

I tried all of the above. Nothing worked, so instead of eating the cost of a non-functional display, I returned it while could.

So I have to start over with a different display.

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