Q: 30" Cinema display fuzzy lines with Retina Macbook pro 15"
I just got an Apple 30" Cinema Display and tested it with the previous owner's 13" non-retina Macbook pro, with the Apple Thunderbolt to Dual-link DVI adapter. Everything worked fine and, in fact, that was his home setup.
I took the monitor home and that very same adapter and tried running it on my rMBP 15" running Mavericks and it had fuzzy bluish lines displaying like there was a cable problem or something.
I hooked it up to my PC with a normal DVI output and the signal was clean (although it will display only at a low res of 1280 x 768 or something, which is correct. Mine is an Intel Haswell based motherboard which doesn't have support for dual-link dvi and I don't have a VGA card with a dual dvi output to test it with yet.)
I have tried:
a) software update to no avail.
b) taking the Thunderbolt cable out and plugging it back in and the same with the USB while the monitor was on.
c) restarting the rMBP, putting it to sleep and waking it up.
d) shutting the monitor off and on.
e) taking the dvi cable out and back in.
f) Changing the resolution to a lower res and back to default high res.
So it seems that it doesn't work with my rMBP 15" but it does with the adapter on another non retina MBP and on my PC. Any ideas to solve this issue?
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 30" cinema display,
Posted on Jan 19, 2014 8:39 AM
