Hi folks,
I have a ATI Radeon 1950X PRO graphic card and use two Monitors, one NEC2070NX and one NEC 73V. I never had any problems with any of these devices, until I reinstalled XP and upgraded to SP3 about a month back.
Since then, I have all kinds of problems. I would turn down PC in the evening, when I would turn it on again the next morning, there would be a "surprise" waiting on the desktop. Video settings would be all wrong. It would either have both monitors having the same signal (my 73V would not have "extended desktop", but same signal as the primary monitor, and Monitors tab would not be visible in Hardware Devices inside System) as well as having huge redraw problems, or the video settings would be set to 640x480px 4bit and XP would not allow me to use anything else.
With the first problem I usually uninstall everything ATI, ran DriverCleaner, then reinstall the ATI driver. This fixes everything. I again have Monitor tab in System, I am able to set both monitors to their correct setting and everything works ok overall. Only reinstalling the driver doesn't work.
With the second problem I just reinstall the driver over the existing driver and this enables me to make the fix.
Now, I do know how to fix the problems, but I'd like to make them go away. This happens at least once a week and it's getting really annoying.
Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? How to fix this?
TIA,
Mat
I have a ATI Radeon 1950X PRO graphic card and use two Monitors, one NEC2070NX and one NEC 73V. I never had any problems with any of these devices, until I reinstalled XP and upgraded to SP3 about a month back.
Since then, I have all kinds of problems. I would turn down PC in the evening, when I would turn it on again the next morning, there would be a "surprise" waiting on the desktop. Video settings would be all wrong. It would either have both monitors having the same signal (my 73V would not have "extended desktop", but same signal as the primary monitor, and Monitors tab would not be visible in Hardware Devices inside System) as well as having huge redraw problems, or the video settings would be set to 640x480px 4bit and XP would not allow me to use anything else.
With the first problem I usually uninstall everything ATI, ran DriverCleaner, then reinstall the ATI driver. This fixes everything. I again have Monitor tab in System, I am able to set both monitors to their correct setting and everything works ok overall. Only reinstalling the driver doesn't work.
With the second problem I just reinstall the driver over the existing driver and this enables me to make the fix.
Now, I do know how to fix the problems, but I'd like to make them go away. This happens at least once a week and it's getting really annoying.
Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? How to fix this?
TIA,
Mat
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