I’ve cobbled together what (in my opinion) is a workable INF file for identifying the Apple 20″ Cinema Display, allowing the 1680x1050 native resolution without need for any secondary utilities.
If there are users out there with the 17″ or 22″ or 23″ Cinema displays, who are technical enough to find the proper information for supporting their displays, feel free to add a comment here with the relevant information and I’ll try to add support for different displays in a future release.
This has been hacked from a information found in a number of other INF files and MS documentation, born out of a need to not have driver installs completely mis-read what my display resolution is, mess up my desktop, make my main monitor unusable, etc. Note that I created a new GUID and haven’t tested it yet – hope that it works. 
If you download this and find it at all useful, please come back and post a comment here. Positive, negative, whatever!
We do request that this not to be made available for redistribution without prior written consent.
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NEW! Contributed by user tronbrain, here’s a monitor INF for Windows that should support the newer Aluminum Apple Cinema 20″ and 23″ models. Still looking for old 23″ and new 30″ EDID info!
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I’ve been using a 20″ Cinema Display with a RADEON 9000 Pro 64 MB, and while we had an issue setting the resolution to 1680/1050 initially it has been working with no problem. Regardless, I installed the INF to see the difference. I honestly don’t see the difference.
This may have been a good aid while I was initially installing the hardware, but I can only guess now. I had hoped that I could now use the on/off button, or see the boot screen. But I guess it a lot of work writing a driver for an undocumented piece of hardware.
Cheers,
Bernard
P.S. I heard of a company that makes video cards that claim compatibility with the Cinemas, including the 20″… I even read a press release but I cannot think of the name. Have you heard of such a company. I’ve been Googling it for a while and I just can’t seem locate it again.
I’ve never heard of a PC card with an ADC adaptor. But with the DVIator (which we’ll be reviewing soon), or the Apple ADC-to-DVI converter, or other more expensive converter/KVM boxes, it’s really easy to use an Apple display under Windows.
I’ve found it useful as there’s now a monitor definition file, so upgrading my video driver I don’t need another utility to control screen res.
And yes, adding support for the buttons would be difficult, as Apple has not specified how they work. If someone finds out the signaling being used, I’d love to contribute to a Windows Cinema support driver.
How do I install this file?
thanks,
Israel
Hi ChaitGear,
I been looking for an INF file for my Apple HD Cinema 23″ for about year so I’m about to bust a nut seeing this I just hope it works. My biggest complant is that if I update my nvidia 5950u drives to the most current it only gives me 3 different screen resalutions to choose from and there all the narrow kind, plus I can’t choose my on sceen refresh rate. The reason for this is because I don’t have a inf file that tells my video card the correct specs of my monitor. I’ll tell you if it worked for me or not.
I am in desperate need to get the 20″ cinema display with with XP Home and a GeForce FX5500 working with better than 1500x1050.
How do I install this .inf file. I tried via ADD/REMOVE HARDWARE and I have not success
Thnaks ………….. Robin
Max display res for 20″ cinema is 1680x1050, which this inf sets up.
Display Properties => Advanced => Monitor Tab => Properties
Driver Tab => Update Driver => Install from specific location + next
Don’t search… + next => Have Disk => Browse… => {{Find the INF file…}}
… accept
… monitor should now default to 1680x1050.
is anyone has ins file for new cinema 23″
above file is for 20″ so i can’t try it
David. I tryed installing the new drivers you are providing and it tells me it cant be installed because the .inf file is missing some information? please get back to me im trying to get my ati x800 to run at 1680x1050. thanx
This works nicely, but any chance of persuading you to add the other two resolutions?
Pretty please?
(ah g’wan, I’ll buy you a wishlist book on amazon or something
Tried your inf file but windows XP refuses to install it – am using the x800 – everything appears either longer or wider – plz help if u can,
On the 20″ and 23″ display for the rez problems. ATI and Nvidia know about this issue, Currently there are bata drivers out for both types of card. cat 4.9 bata and 66.00 nvidia drivers.please locate at guru3d.com
Please note there are still issues with the drivers that they are both working out. Like anti virus issues and high quality game playing. Both drivers will be release as soon as nvidia releases there 6600 video card and ati releases there x600 cards. The problems should be fixed in those releases. as far as the usb and firwire issue. Nivida is going to release mainboard drivers that take care of some usb and firwire issues but have not clamed if it would fix the usb and firewire problems.
I have a first generation 22″ Apple Cinema display which connects to a DVI output without the Dr. Bot adapter (which I bought and don’t need now). If anyone has info on the 22″ driver or wants to buy a Dr. Bott adapter cheap, (never used) let me know at my email address. You pay shipping. I’d say 3/4 price would be fair. I think it cost about $90 new.
Couldn’t install it under XP, I have a 9800SE card with the 20″ plugged right into the DVI port. But… I unchecked the ‘hide modes monitor cannot display’ button in the dialog and now I have 1680x1050 which is what I’m using. It looks great!
Thanks for the download, even though it doesn’t work for me, because of it I mucked around enough to fix the problem,
Adam
I’m doing the same thing that adam did in his post, I have a ATI 9700, and the monitor works great, except for in DOS mode…no picture. Figures. I also have some problems with power management, the monitor doesn’t seem to want to shut off. Thx for the inf, even though it didn’t work with my xpprosp2 install, any suggestions on the power problem?
I’ve just bought a Cinema Display 20 and grabbed this .inf at once, but XP doesn’t recognize it as valid for my display. I don’t know if there could have been some change in this series, but the .inf definetly doesn’t work.
I look forward for useful comments .)
Zsombor
(XP-SP2, 9600XT)
Okay, here it is: for all you bleeding-edge goobers trying to run a Skinema Display on your XP Machine, try this .INF file - I have confirmed success with it. It should work for the 20 & 23 Inch Aluminum Cinema Displays.
To make this file work with other ACD versions, you will need the EDID for your particular display. To find out what this identifier would be, download the utility _Everest Home_ from http://www.lavalys.com - in the section on monitors, you can retrieve the EDID information for your display.
Good luck!
{CGEd- File extracted and now downloadable above. At some point, will try to merge into one, and get ALL the Cinema model EDIDs – PASS ALONG YOURS!}
My new 20″ aluminum Cinema Display’s EDID is “MONITOR\APP921D”. I am having problems, however, getting Windows XP to recognize the .INF file after it has been updated as such. Maybe it will work for someone else.
My new ACD 20″ is hooked up on the Radeon 9000 Pro card. Just downloaded new display driver from ATI, everything works fine. I can see all the available resolutions in my control panel. There is no need to download the .INF from top.
Now I just need to find out how to get Apple’s display control panel on WinXP. Right now the USB HID for the display is not working.
Ok i got my 30 inch displays EDID Info here “APP9220″ I hope this helps i hacked in the rez and everything using the other monitors as example and i couldnt get it to work. I have 2 of these hooked up to a quatro fx 4400 id love to be able to have a driver for them.
The new INF file, there were posted earlier by “tronbrain” is not working! I’ve tested it on several machines now running XP Pro, it cannot reconize the INF file as an driver, it said “The specified location does not contain information about your hardware.” I have now tried it on 3 different machines running XP pro, it comes with the same problem. David — Thursday, April 14th, 2005 who wrote taht he had updated his driver for ATI is WORKING, for accepted ATI-videocards with this problem just update the driver from www.ATI.COM, I Haven’t tested it on NVIDIA videocards, but for those who still can’t get it to work use this tool called PowerStrip 3.59 download it from http://entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm, after install start the program & right-click on the little diplay right next-to the clock on the Menu-bar, then on the popup-menu, click Display profiles -> Configure… Next window click on “Advanced timing options…” Then click “Custom resolutions…” now scroll down a little & choose the right resolution “160x1050p (ACD)” now click on the botton “Add new resolution” the display may now flicker a little, nothing to worry about it it changing the resoluton, then press “OK” at the next window & press “Restart at the last window, the machine is now restarting and the resoultion is working at 1680x1050 pixels at 60 Hz. If you don’t like the PowerStrip tool to be installed anymore, then remove using the Add & Remove function in windows, the new resolution is still there even after removing the PowerStrip tool. Good Luck to all of you who haven’t got it to work yet !
You can download the WinACD driver for the USB HID monitor controls from http://sourceforge.net/projects/winacd
Just got my 23″er and FX5200-TD128. Trying to use the INF file says, “nothing found for your device” or something like that. Any ideas?
Has anyone been able to get the 30″ Display to work on Windows professional with anything other than 1280x800?
What a beautiful display and what a horrible waste of my money to only get one single resolution. Most of my games won’t even play on this monitor (Doom3, Half-life2 etc).
I would be forever grateful to anyone who could help get this working.
I’m also stuck at 1280*800 on a great 30″. If anyone has tips on how to change that it’d be greatly appreciated.
I have a 1st generation 23 in HD display and just got a new ATI x800 card. Will this be a help for me?
This software work grade on my 20″ monitor. Recommand any one who use Apple LCD on PC.
Follow the link to WinACD.
A very cute piece of software, I have a 20″ aluminium display and this adds a control tab to the monitor properties.
Awesome….
I have it running at the full rez, what video card are you using? Is it a d-dvi capable card?
Hi, does anybody know what pci-express card works best with the 23″ alu model? I get the maximum resolution with my Nvidia geforce 6600 GT but no bios or post screens. I’ve heard that some graphics card can get the panel to display those as well…
Thanks.
Silvio,
I use an ATI X850 pci-e card together with the 23″ alu cinema display and it work just fine during POST/BIOS and of course in Windows. Not sure if this combination is the best but it sure does work
Ok, folks I finally figured this out. Pass the word to everyone please.
The only cards capable of running these monitors at full resolution are thos ewith True Dual-Dvi support. That wouldbe the 6800 Ulta and the QuadraFX. I upgraded from the GT to Ultra after talking with NVidia and XFX and everything is wonderful now.
Hereis NVidias official comment regarding support. It’s not quite accurate as the Ultra also supports these monitors now so you dont have to spend 2-3K
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid59&p_created=1097092529&p_sid*IkfmTJh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzAmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0wJnBfcHY9JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfZm5sJnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9YXBwbGUgY2luZW1hIGRpc3BsYXk*&p_li=&p_topview=1
Jason - The first part is correct, the second isn’t. There’s a bunch of Dual-Link DVI capable cards on the market, including ATI, Nvidia, and I think at least on of the other vendors (Matrox, maybe S3). The 30″ Apple Cinema Display requires a Dual-Link DVI card, both ports – note that’s different from a ‘normal’ card that happens to have two DVI ports, the ‘Dual-Link’ means both ports have full throughput (which used to be only for the workstation-class boards).
Lightwave,
Just read about your success of using the 20” former gen Apple Display. How did you do it??
I’m new to this, so don’t really understand how it works. I’ve downloaded the INF file from Chait but what’s next?
Is the software self installing??
I’d like to use the ACD with my PC. Hardware is Nvidia GeForce FX5700 Ultra with 128MB.
Your assistance is appreciated.
syntonic - my original INF worked for me in the past. More recently, I think newer ATI/NV drivers should natively read the monitor (even ‘through’ a Dr. Bott’s) and pick up the native display resolution. I’ve temporarily switched to my Dell 2005FPW as I’m running DVI and VGA inputs. I like the ACD better overall, but for the price the 2005FPW is doing a great job… but I can’t wait to get my ACD back up and running as my primary monitor, as it’s easier on my eyes over long stretches of time.
I have a 20″ alum cin display and have tried an ati x850xl-pcie and an x800xl-pcie without luck. The resolution is fine but the color is all pink from the bios on to windows. The inf files are not recognized by windows. It is impossible to get a straight answer from ati or apple. In fact I’m getting tired of this. The setup is an IBM intellistation m pro running win xp pro sp-2. Any help is apreciated.
I have the 30″ working fine on my pc at 2560x1600x32 with a PNY geforce 6600GT dual DVI from compUSA. The latest nvidia driver 7/1/2005 works fine.
I have the 30″ working fine for me, and I am using a 3D Labs Wildcat Realizm 800 at 2560x1600x32. Using latest acuity driver.
has anyone managed to go higher than 2560x1600?
Trying to get this to work with an IBM ThinkPad T41p. Anyone out there have any ideas?
i have a 23′ alu cinema display with a dvi connector.. i also have a ati 9800 all in wonder card (AGP 8x).. windows xp pro wrks fine for me with latest drivers… although the lcd is recognized as plug and play monitor… my problem is with bios/post/windows boot screens… does any one no for sure wich video cards (AGP ONLY - i dont have PCI express slots) will display the bios/post screens like regular monitors…it is really annoying and i desprately need to fix this… any help will be appreciated…
thanx
i have a 23′ alum display.. i also have ati 9800 all in wonder pro… my bios and post screen do not display.. can anyone recommend any AGP card that they no woked and show the bios and post screens….plz let me no..thanx
Hi,
I have a first generation 22″ Apple Cinema display connected via a DV box to my VAIO RG34 with a Radeon X300.
The problem is I can’t get any higher than 1280x1024. This leaves two unused 2-inch bands on the sides of the screen.
What’s my solution - a new driver, a new video card, or….?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Hi I have a 23 cinema plugged into a 9800 SE card and dowloaded an ACP thing (can’t remember where from now it’s at home) and it allowed me to use the buttons on the side of the screen for power and brightness and it also let me choose resolutions, however I still see no post and bios.
James
there is a little bug in the .inf file [ed: depends on your monitor!], change line 2 and 3 to:
ClassMonitor
ClassGUID{4d36e96e-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
and you will be able to install it….
m.
… actually that still didn’t allow me to hook it up to my Vaio Desktop PCG-RZ44G with the latest nVidia driver
will have to keep looking.
I have a 30 inch display with Nvidia 6800 GT… cannot get past 1280x800, have tried everything.
We notice that Dirk said:
“I have the 30″ working fine on my pc at 2560x1600x32 with a PNY geforce 6600GT dual DVI from compUSA. The latest nvidia driver 7/1/2005 works fine.”
So.. we are going to order that card and see if it works.
I will post back if it does.
-Kayla
Another card that works very well is the PNY Quadro FX 4000. By “works very well” I mean (a) it drives the 30″ ACD at full resolution, and (b) the resulting giant screen is as fast as what you’re used to from your days on 1280x1024 screens. I tried several different lower-cost cards that technically supported the dual DVI and did in fact put a 2560x1600x32 picture up there, but when I would run games or graphic intensive applications, the framerate was dismal. With the Quadro, you’re running >60fps at gigantic resolution. It usually costs half as much as the display, but if you are very patient you can sometimes get them cheaper.
Another approach is to go with a pair of NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX’s in SLI mode. I haven’t done a comparison benchmark but the system I saw was clearly acceptable in performance. Two of those babies will be nearly as much as the Quadro, though.
I have downloadeed WinACD (http://sourceforge.net/projects/winacd/). It Solves all my problems with 20″ ACD.
I have 20″ and Radeon 9600 XT , sometimes i get screen and everthing works great but many times i get anything
I had problems starting my aluminium 20″, gc Radeon 9200vivo older card,
from the first it recognized my cinema with ATi catalist 6.2 and resolution was ok, but on restart, my comp did not recognized my alu 20″ and it shut down on boot logo, USB and firewire hub was running from first starting ok, so I’ve first install independent inf driver from this site (ApILCD.zip )and changed second line:
ClassGuid{26CC7A16-8AC1-4e14-8A03-FC2A37BF97A5}
through out = equal mark…
2. install WinACD 0.4.5 (new) version, and from that point everything was ok, my monitor works great.
Ive notice that also work for 23″ and winACD installs a complete new driver for that monitors, I do not know what is for 30″ but I assume that is driven with Graphic card only and there is no a inf for 30″, One question for future use of WinACD, I mailed an autor and I get this for 64bit machines there is no in plan to make a 64 bit inf driver jet. So I hope it is matter of time to compile it, for xp64bit, but for Vista I hope. Maybe the Microsoft will implement it…
Regards.
I am running the 30″ cinema with all resolutions avail. with 2 7800GTX in SLI. It works great with the current NVidia drivers, just make sure the monitor is plugged into the dual link output on your video cards and not the slaved side.
Hey all.
I would like to add a few of the things I have learned about this issue. I have a 30” cinema since 5/2005. I have used 4 different computers on it (2 old ones and now 2 new ones) and have built a couple others for friends and tried to hook up theirs to it. I have had a lot of problems and have narrowed it down to what either works for me or I am 99% sure will given what I have learned.
1) The 30” needs a dual link DVI. Most dual DVI cards do NOT have this. When they do, typically only one of the ports is dual link. In my experience it is the one closest to the motherboard.
2) Nvidia cards are all reference standard, so brand is irrelevant.
3) The chipsets vary and are confusing. For example, a 6600GS will not work, but a 6600GT will.
4) Cards that work for me: 6600GT, 7800GT. I assume any “GT/GTX” over 6600 will work (6800, 7600, and 7900).
5) Cards that did not work for me: 7300, 7600GS, 6600. (The 7600GS claimed to have Dual link, but later Nvidia said it did not).
6) You do not need an INF file (there isn’t one anyway). Windows XP with the Nvidia drivers will recognize the 30” and work at full resolution. If it doesn’t, your card is not dual link.
7) Nvidia driver 81.98 (as of 4/26/2006) work perfectly
8) KVM: A regular DVI KVM will not work. You need a dual link. I have a gefen (www.gefen.com) “DVL DL” switcher.
Thanks for the contribution! I’m sure that’ll help a lot of folks…
OK - Now I’m spooked - I just bought a WInFAst A6600 GT AGP, connected it to my 30 inch and still stuck on 1280 x 800. Have tried everything above. Please help!!
You are running the latest NV drivers? And poked around the NV control panel settings to make sure it’s pulling up the monitor info properly?
I’ve got 30 ins CD and graphic card ATI Radeon 9600 PRO PC & MAC Edition with Dual-Link DVI, Mobo is GIGABYTE GA-K8NS (8x AGP -but system shows x4 - why?):
Highest resolution is: 1280x800
(( Horrible
What to do?
I am running XP pro using a 7800GT with a 30″ display and I am stuck with 1280 x 800 despite what dirk says. What am I doing wrong?
Is there a 64 bit version? I need it badly.
I’ve got the 20″ display and using nVidia geForce 6800 GS card. Have no problem with the max resolution of 1680 by 1050, which is great for games - but theres no option to set to 1280 by 800, which I much prefer for reading text and documents. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this before I go blind ?!
My opinion is that you never really want to be running an LCD in non-native mode, unless it’s a direct factor of the original size (i.e., running a 1600x1200 display as 800x600 is awesome).
Beside that… Well, the driver gives whatever options it wants.
The 20″ widescreen displays usually don’t get much more than the standard 4:3 sizes in addition to the native res. I’d just set your windows DPI to 120 (Display Properties -> Advanced -> General, Display DPI Setting option), as that’ll get you a near-equivalent font size to the resolution change you were looking for.
Recently purchased a 30″ and 23″. Bought a Visiontek ATI Radeon X1300 PCE-Express card (512MB) for about $200 that works great with the 30″ at 2560x1600.
Have tried the 23″ on that card, as well as 2 other computers with 4 different cards, and it won’t display POST or windows bootup on any combination. Picked up a 2nd 23″ screen from my dealer just to check and it does not work either. However, if I boot into windows on a different monitor, then unplug and attach the ACD 23″, it works fine. Not a viable solution but shows that the 23″ must not support the POST / Windows Boot lowres video frequency/sync rates.
Meanwhile the 30″ works on all combinations for POST and bootup, even on cards that don’t have dual-link (and hence don’t support the 2560x1600 res).
So the 30″ appears to be more compatible with “PC” based video cards, aside from the necessity of course of dual-link DVI to use it’s highest resolution.
If anyone has the 23″ working on a PC in POST/Windows bootup, please post what video card you are using.
Just a friendly remind that the max resolution of VGA/Single link/Dual Link are different. Besides,the monitor and driver matters. I work for making graphics card.
I had problems starting my aluminium 30″ .I don’t have driver for XP pro. please hellp me
I have the 20″ display (2006) on a system with XFX Nvidia 6600 card and ATI Xpress X200 on chip. After a great deal of problems at first I managed to get my Nvidia going at 1680x1050 - there are no problems with POST/Windows startup screen whatsoever. The ATI X200 however does not seem to work at all with this combo - it doesnt show POST/Windows startup sceen nor does it activate the monitor when Windows start. Unfortunately I dont have another monitor to help troubleshooting the ATI chip. Getting the X200 work I’d settle for any resolution I get
. Any thoughts on the matter anyone? This thread has been very helpful in setting up the ACD, so thanks to everyone for posting.
I was unable to get the two files to work on the INF downloads above in the blog entry, but after downloading the latest (0.4.5) from that URL with my new 23″ ACD that I just got attached to a radeon x300 in my Sony Vaio it started working, as did the power button on the side.
I just bought an alum 23′’ ACD and it won’t light up. Graphics card is a nvidia GeForce 6600. After the DVI port didn’t work I used an adapter to change it to VGA and it still didn’t work in the VGA ports. OS is Windows XP Home if that helps.
I have the aluminium ACD 20″ on AGP MSI Geforce Ti 4600 128mb and it works fine.
I bought the 23″ monitor 2 weeks ago. I have the nVidia GeForce 7600GS. I have no problems going up to 1920x1200 resolution, and everything down from there. I was annoyed by the intermittant working of the on/off control and brightness control. In trying various things to address that, I’ve found that simply not plugging in the USB cable from the Apple power supply (i.e., not having use of the USB ports on the monitor) makes that problem go away, at least on my PC. While I wish Apple would make software to control the monitor available for Windows XP, I can live with this. Love the monitor!
Got the 23″ one a few days ago, absolutely adore it. A fantastic monitor. Doesn’t show boot up on my 6800GT (AGP) and I ve been trying to locate a windows based BIOS editor just for whenever I need to change something in BIOS. I suspect the reason the BOOT info are not displayed is because of the lower (unsupported?) resolution during this process. I ‘ve even tried to find an nvidia boot manager just in case I could change the boot settings of my GFX but no luck. If anyone has any info please come forward.
Just installed a 30″ cinema monitor.
Had to do 3 things:
1- Install a new video card (AGP) 8X/4X ATI Radeon X1600 XT. The card you install must be DUAL-LINK. This does not mean dual DVI connectors on the card, it means DUAL-LINK.
2- Make sure you have at least a 350 watt power supply. I had a 320 and kicked it up to a new 400.
3- I had poor resolution until I changed my DVI connection to the other available DVI connector that contained the DUAL-LINK feature on it.
I installed the winacd 4.5 program & on the monitor properties under settings tab, advanced button I have a tab that shows the apple & CONTROLS tab. It shows the apple 30″ monitor icon & says Virtual Controls but shows “none present”. If anyone has any idea’s how to get the controls loaded for this tab, let me know. Thanks…
The .INF at top, AND the WinACD driver from sourceforge.net for the USB HID monitor controls workes GREAT for us, always does on any install.
Can’t hold EVERYONE’S hand!! If you can’t figure it out after reading ALL of the above posts, don’t bother!
We have a simple ATI Radeon 9250, and it works fine, at ANY resolution. WinXP Pro.
I bought the ATI Radion x1950 pro recently. While experimenting with refresh rates, I blew my 24inch Sony CRT. So I rushed out and bought the apple 30 inch. The flat panel worked right out of the box with my card at 2560x1600 in windows 2003 and didn’t need any drivers. The result was remarkably brilliant. The only niggle I had was that buttons on the monitor didn’t respond sometimes and I wasn’t sure if it was because I needed a driver for the monitor. After many years of trying out ATI cards, I think ATI sux for CRT monitors. But they are good for LCD’s.
Install the WinACD driver and gain full control of those side buttons. Before installing, the monitor would not shut down with the CPU - backlight stayed on. The brightness controls would occasionally go dead, too.
The Apple Cinema 23 worked fine without the driver, ironically due to an error in it’s HID/ID, but the 30 has recognizable HID information, and would lock out the side switches at random and at shutdown. WinACD fixed that problem.
hi everybody,
i got a brand new 17″ macbook pro, 160 gb. 2 mb. ram and so and so. also i bought a 23″ cinema but in parallels desktop, my screen flickers. its not happening in 1600x1200 but maximum res. = 1920x1200
what do i do wrong. in windows it says
adaptertype: parallels video driver
monitor: default monitor
is there any drivers out othere, which would provide perfect and steady picture for me?
I thought i’d mention that I have a windows XP PC, with a geforce 7600GT card (2ports with dual-link dvi) running an apple 30″ display.
I used winACD and screwed with settings for a few days before i got it working, but it has been working great for several months now.
Only recently, about 3 weeks ago, a band of vertical lines (or a very find grid- i think revealing the native resolution) started appearing in a yellowish-brown color with random colors interleaved from top to bottom. Approx 4-6cm wide, this band slowly fades away.
Strangely every few weeks it reappears in a new location and fades away over about 20 minutes.
ANY IDEAS?!?!
We installed the WinACD app on a Dell using a Radeon 7600GT and Appe 30″ Display and it worked great! We’re now able to customize the power button on the display.
hi everybody,
i am currently trying to get an Apple Cinema Display 23″ working with an PC and a Geforce 4 MX.
The good thing is, that everything looks fine after configuring the monitor via the Nvidia Destop Manager.
But if i reboot the PC, the previously configured resolution is lost…
I want to use 1900x1200, which works, when i configure it by hand. After rebooting the PC the resolution is set to 1280x1024 by Windows.
I think the missing display driver is the problem, but the above driver doesn’t work on my Windows XP machine.
Any ideas, how i can set the resolution to 1900x1200 permanently?
Thanks in advance
Dirk
I assume you have recent drivers? I’ve found over time that certain cards, certain drivers and control panels didn’t always restore properly upon reboot.
I got it working on WinXP 64!
If you unzip the WinACD msi file, one of the files is actually the display INF file. Edit that and change:
[Manufacturer]
%APPLE%=APPLE_MON
[APPLE_MON]
to:
[Manufacturer]
%APPLE%=APPLE_MON,NTamd64
[APPLE_MON.NTamd64]
Save it, and tell WinXP 64 to use that file for the driver of your “pluag-and-play” monitor.
I have a 23″ Apple cinema display. I have an old-ish Emachine PC wih vga monitor. I have a DVI/vga adapter, plug this in, but nothing is visible on the Apple display. Can someone walk me thru what is needed here with the download or with the PC in general to view on the Apple display?
I recently bought an apple screen for my pc and im wondering if anyone can help me set it up? i have the vga to dvi adaptor for my computer but I soon noticed that its not as easy a “plug and play” monitor. Any directions? thanks
I have baught the 20″ Apple cinema display.
Before this I researched it thoroughly to see if my Windows and video card would be compatible.
I found out my ATI Radeon 9200/9250 video card can’t output 1680x1050 so I searched for a compatible driver and I found Omega drivers which is a modded video card driver for either ATI or NVdia and sure enough it worked!
But unfortunately I tried both WinACD and the original apple aluminum inf but ut didn’t work. But it’s okay and the ACD monitor is great! Some people say the blacks have a purple hue to it but I don’t see it in my monitor.
To Jon if you read this you need to use a card with a DVI output and a driver that supports 1680x1050 or 16x10 ratio. That’s all to it.
I currently have the apple 23″ cinema display hooked to a mac pro through the apple DVI adapter and USB. After the installing boot camp 2.1 on a Vista 64-bit the screen went dim. I know what is going on. My problem is getting the WinACD work for me. It seems that the software is NOT mearnt to work with Vista 64-bit. Any clues out there?
I got my 30″ cinema to work at full resolution with the evga 9600 gso on win xp 64x pro. I used powerstrip with custom timing to create the driver.
Cant make my 30″ ACD to work unde XP x64…
You guys who did make it work on the native resolution please tell me how you did it. Do not need the button controls, just the right resolution…
Already extracted the winACD.msi so i could tweak the .inf files but dont know how to code it to work on the 64 bit system, as it is in winACD 0.4.6 it will not work, install do not complete and the inf file does not work alone too… says it is not coded for 64bit system… please assist!
Hi everybody,
I’ve reached to this topic searching on the internet some Apple Cinema Display drivers for my 23″ monitor. I have to mention that they didn’t work (at least on my system - and I do have a DVI video card - ATI 1600XT) although it works fine even without the drivers, except the fact that I can’t control brightness / contrast and some other options (besides the ati control pannel)
The second problem I have is that I run my monitor on a PC with Windows XP as the OS. Everything’s fine except the fact that I can’t acces my BIOS and I can’t see the boot up screen. I think this is a problem of the OS because the minimum resolution supported by the APC is 1024x768 while the OS starts at a lower resolution - 640x480.
Have anyone faced this kind of problems? and if yes - do you have any solution for them? or at least if there’s any possible way to change my bootup screen resolution ?
Thanks in advance !
I have a 23″ Apple cinema display hooked to my PC’s geforce 8400GS via a ADC to DVI adapter.
The max resolution the Nvidia control panel software on the PC shows my 23″ Apple cinema display as 1600x1024 (native) as the highest resolution.
Shouldn’t I be able to get 1900x1280 or so? What am I doing wrong?