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Dual monitors worked great, now it crashes.

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Valinos

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This is a repost from the Video forums since no one seems to be over there.

Well, I just got my Diamon Fire GL card in the mail about a week ago from a fellow ATer and I was extremely happy when I got my dual monitor setup running. It was awesome. Useful, worthwhile, and only cost me $20 and some extra deskspace.

Well, I installed my new Soyo Dragon Plus! and had zero problems. It was working great for a couple days, and then when I shut down my computer to get a stick of DDR out to test a friend's computer it quit working. I booted it back up and it crashed as soon as WinXP loaded. So I tried 3 more times to no avail. I took out the stick of memory and tried again. This time I thought I had it fixed. Then I left the room and when I came back my screensaver had turned on and everything froze again.

At this point, I was freaking and I went into Safe mode. I thought it may have been the Ultramon utility screwing everything up. I couldn't uninstall it in safe mode so I had to try WinXP again and hope it gave me enough time to disable it.

Well, after several reboots I wasd finally able to disable Ultramon and uninstall it. Then I try to reboot and it crashes at the shutting down screen. I turn off the power and restart. I turn off "enable Windows desktop to expand across two monitors". Everything is fine. I decide to try turning dual monitors back on. As soon as my mouse moves over to the second screen, it crashes.

I finally decide to move the Fire GL to another PCI slot. I did that, and it still doesn't work correctly. It worked flawlessly with this exact same hardware setup for two days, then all of a sudden it goes nuts and I no longer have Dualie bliss. Does anyone have any clue as to why this is happening to me? What could possibly be the problem? I have every updated driver to every hardware device I have, and the latest software and updates for Windows XP.

Is this just a case of CFM (Computer F*ckin' Magic)?

Woe is me.
 
Purely speculative, but try reseating ram, and while you are there check for anything else not seated properely.

sounds suspicious that it was working until you took out ram. maybe the ram isn't seated ,or
in pulling the ram,you bumped something else.

as you stated: ran fine before, and the problem you state is consistant with something
(usually ram) not making good contact .

hope this helps
 
Yeah, it sounds like something's not seated quite right. If all your hardware turns out to be installed correctly, are you sure the ram was not damaged during testing? Also, WinXP seems to be big on automatic detection, and may have changed a setting or two on you without saying anything, although I haven't seen it do that without a hardware change. When I was using a GF3 and Matrox Productiva 100 (pci multi-monitor), depending on resolution, sometimes a small portion of my main app would load onto the secondary screen, and there were definitely other unresolved issues in the desktop layout (mostly when there was 3d involved), even though XP includes the driver and automatically detects the hardware.

I also had a similar issue on one occasion, and it was resolved by the following: I booted into safe mode, removed *both* the drivers for the primary and secondary card, including deleting their respective registry entries. Then I powered down, removed the secondary card, booted so XP installed drivers for the primary card, powered down, installed the secondary, rebooted, and XP once again used both cards "properly."
 
I'm positive it isn't a RAM issue. I turned off the second monitor and its been working for 2 days straight, with no crashes. And I'm overclocked to 1320 from 1200 to boot. As soon as I turn the second vid card on to display though, it crashes., Maybe I'll try uninstalling the two cards and reinstalling them like you mentioned. As obvious as it would be, I didn't think about doing that. har har 😉 I'll post a follow up to let you know if it worked.
 


<< And I'm overclocked to 1320 from 1200 to boot. As soon as I turn the second vid card on to display though, it crashes. >>



I assume you've backed off the OC.
 
Well, when this first happened it was at the regular 1200. Since then, I've overclocked and had no problems. I haven't tried fixing it yet, though.

It is definately a conflict with XP and my second video card, what that conflict is, I dunno. That's why I'm asking you guys 😉
 
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