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Well, so far I've had the monitor go out once DIRECTLY after I moved my mouse and the monitors "turned on". It came back though shortly thereafter. I haven't had this issue while playing games though(at least so far). Before when it went out, it would never turn back on, so while it's not perfect now, it IS better. Will report back if it happens again.
EDIT: I moved both DVI connections to the two plugs furthest from the motherboard and kept the DP connection on the plug closest to the MB. Going to see if it makes a difference.

Ok, something interesting happened a min ago. I have a dvi cable that goes from the DP monitor to my triplehead2go(from when I had my 4870). I went back behind the computer, unhooked it from the th2go and routed it through my mess of cables so I could hook it up to my other computer. Before hooking it up to that computer, I noticed the DP screen went off. I tried the usual stuff, but it just wouldn't come back on. After unplugging and plugging in the cable, switching ends a couple times, the last time I unhooked it from the mini-dp adapter and plugged it back it, voila! It turned on. I'm very suspicious about the adapter connection and think it could be the problem. I'm going to order a mini-dp to dp cable from monoprice and see if it fixes the problem. Hopefully eliminating the multiple connections will work, but I'm crossing my fingers.

I also just exchanged my regular DP cable for a different one and so far so good. But that's what I thought before. :P Should take a few days to get the 1 piece cable I want, but hopefully this will hold me over until it gets here.

I played darkfall ALL DAY(12 hours) and didn't have a SINGLE incident. Looks like the cable might have been bunk after all. I'll continue my testing and report back.

Hi there,
I have the same problem here. The monitor connected to the ACCELL display port adapter blanks out every now and then. I have to log out and then log back in.
I have a triple-monitor eyefinity setup and a sapphire 5870 1 gig.
This is actually my second adapter from amazon, hoping the first one was defective, but nope, same issue.
It is really frustrating. I spent a lot of money on this setup and I expect it to work.
I did not try earlier versions of the catalyst drivers, and but I do have the latest graphic bios dated May 2010 which was supplied to me by Sapphire.

Any ideas guys, has anyone made progress in finding out what to do about this. This is beginning to be more of a headache than it's worth.

** FYI: I just checked the adapter FW version, it's 2.00
Thanks,

Karim

I played darkfall ALL DAY(12 hours) and didn't have a SINGLE incident. Looks like the cable might have been bunk after all. I'll continue my testing and report back.

I have had my 5970 for 8 months or so. Was using a dvi monitor with a dp to vga adapter. Was having dropouts. After a month went dell native dp monitor with a mini dp to dp cable.

Have not had a dropout in 6 months. :rockout

After months of not being able to use Cat 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 due to flickering DP issues, I have found a solution.

1. I believe it's the DP adapter. I just ordered an Accell B087B-003J Mini DP adapter with firmware 2.0. I previously used an Accell B087B-002B with old firmware.

2. The DP adapter should be plugged in a wall mounted USB adapter.

No more flickering or shutting off issues.

Will monitor and post if problems.

I am using Cat 10.7 Hotfix.

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[quote]I played darkfall ALL DAY(12 hours) and didn't have a SINGLE incident. Looks like the cable might have been bunk after all. I'll continue my testing and report back.

I have had my 5970 for 8 months or so. Was using a dvi monitor with a dp to vga adapter. Was having dropouts. After a month went dell native dp monitor with a mini dp to dp cable.

Have not had a dropout in 6 months. :rockout

I'm using a native Display Port monitor, no adapters.

After months of not being able to use Cat 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 due to flickering DP issues, I have found a solution.

1. I believe it's the DP adapter. I just ordered an Accell B087B-003J Mini DP adapter with firmware 2.0. I previously used an Accell B087B-002B with old firmware.

2. The DP adapter should be plugged in a wall mounted USB adapter.

No more flickering or shutting off issues.

Will monitor and post if problems.

I am using Cat 10.7 Hotfix.

But magnet699 still has problems with the 2.0 firmware!

From experience, I found that Cat drivers are unique to each rig. ie, the variables are great. It sucks that a set of drivers (which are universal) are so SENSITIVE to hardware/software combinations.

I would suggest to magnet :

1. Plug the adapter into a wall mounted USB unit. After testing, I found this to be stable. ie, far less dropouts.
2. As he is not using crossfire, I would imagine any Cat driver to be stable. However, from experience, I found Cat 10.3 or 10.4 to be most stable.

I have at least solved one of my issues.

Now to concentrate on quadfinity performance issues.

The adventure continues.

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