Hi folks,
I recently picked up an SC 740 that I'm trying to figure out. A manual would be real helpful but I can't seem to find one on the Avocent/Emerson website. All I could find was a PDF of the little two-page quick start card that came in the box, which is pretty useless. I would love to know how the hotkeys work and what sort of settings might be available there.
The main issue I'm having is that I can't get my second monitor to work through it. The system is an HP PC running Windows Vista with an Nvidia GEforce graphics card. The card has one DVI output and one VGA output. If I cable them directly to my monitors, both work fine and I can have different windows displayed on each of them.
I have connected the DVI output from the Nvidia card to the first DVI port for system A on the SC740, and the VGA output to the second DVI port for system A (with a DVI to VGA adapter obviously). Then I have two DVI cables from the console DVI ports to my monitors. The first monitor works fine, but the second monitor says "No signal" and just goes to sleep after a few seconds. However, I can see both monitors in the Nvidia control panel and it correctly identifies the native resolution of both monitors (first one is 1920x1200, second one is 1680x1050) so the graphics card can apparently see the second monitor even though it claims it has no signal.
Any ideas why the second monitor acts like it has no input? Is there some limitation that both video inputs from the system have to be VGA or both have to be DVI? Or maybe it won't work unless both monitors are the same resolution?
Thanks,
Chuck