Recent content by Gsaraco

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    Dual screen setup - need help displaying Windows XP on my TV!

    yup... went into nVidia's driver archive and installed an older one. I've got my TV in fully-stabilized color now!!!
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    Dual screen setup - need help displaying Windows XP on my TV!

    Hmm, well I was working with the normal Windows display properties for the most part. Basically I used the nVidia software to switch from clone to dual view, and from there I proceeded to do what you suggested in the normal Display Properties. I will try again though, and try to involve the...
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    Dual screen setup - need help displaying Windows XP on my TV!

    Yes, in span mode I checked the resolution... Display Properties listed the desktop as a single monitor with 1600x600 resolution (basically just taking two 800x600 screens and adding them together). So "span" sets both displays at 800x600. However if I go back to Dual View and manually...
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    frequent, unpredictable, involuntary rebooting!

    well, it turns out there was an extra computer lying around my parents house that wasn't getting any use. It had a faster processor and more RAM than my current setup, so I ended up just taking that and putting some of my existing hardware in it to round out the setup. So everything runs...
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    Dual screen setup - need help displaying Windows XP on my TV!

    I'll try and be brief. My video card is a NVIDIA P162 GEFORCE MX440 VIDEO CARD AGP In the past, I have used the S-video port (with RCA adapter) in a dual view setup with my TV. I recently reinstalled Windows XP and now I can't get the secondary display (the TV) to work correctly. I just...
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    frequent, unpredictable, involuntary rebooting!

    haha sorry, I should clarify... I took a photograph of each BSOD and posted them online. In my reply I posted links to the photographs, which are hosted on the PhotoBucket website. So those aren't the text of the BSODs. Those are URLs that will show you pics of my monitor :) thanks, I might...
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    frequent, unpredictable, involuntary rebooting!

    just got a reboot in the middle of another reboot, and it produced a DIFFERENT bluescreen o' death: BSOD number twohttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/BustaUppa/BSOD070208-a.jpg this one mentions something about drivers so it may be revealing.
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    frequent, unpredictable, involuntary rebooting!

    okay I got another reboot while playing a video file. here's the BSOD that I got: http://img.photobucket.com/alb...staUppa/BSOD070208.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v60/BustaUppa/BSOD070208.jpg edit: whoops, not sure how to post images here, but if you follow that link you can see the...
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    frequent, unpredictable, involuntary rebooting!

    One night I got back to my apartment real late, and I smelled something burning. Turns out it was the PSU! I shut off the computer and went to bed. The next morning I tried turning the computer on. It started booting up, then I literally saw FLAMES inside the power supply and before I...
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    frequent, unpredictable, involuntary rebooting!

    Interior seems fine. I've used one of those compressed air cans to clear out dust and such. As far as fans are concerned - the fan on the motherboard, the fan on the interior case, a little fan on the underside of the video card, and the fan inside the power supply are all running. I...
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    frequent, unpredictable, involuntary rebooting!

    Troubleshooting starter Overview of the problem frequent, unpredictable BSODs and reboots... even after reformatting hard drive and reinstalling Windows! Full description of the problem and symptoms Hi, first-time poster here! I asked around an unrelated forum for a tech-support site...