my voodoo3 changes the resolution from 1074x768 to 640x480 sometimes when I restart

[CasioTech]

Does anyone know why it does that?

is it my monitor? Or the voodoo card?

 

[CasioTech]

any ideas?!?!

 

[CasioTech]

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[RagingGuardian]

I have stumbled upon this most annoying problem with my V3 also. A simple fix that I find works is to leave the monitor on. The problem seems to go away when I do this so I'm assuming the problem may be monitor related.

 

[CasioTech]

aren't the resolutions stored in windows? Not the monitor!?

 

[helloedchen]

this happened to me with my Gforce DDR...i just got my monitor replaced so hopefully it was because of a faulty monitor...

 

[RagingGuardian]

It could be driver related but I'm just suggesting that leaving the monitor on corrects the problem. I still think it's my crappy monitor since the problem only arises when I power down the monitor.

 

[RagingGuardian]

My second double post. What's wrong with the forums????? I keep getting timed out.

 

[CasioTech]

raging G. Did that fix the problem or not? I don't think that it will, knowing that it's the video card that adjusts the resolution and refresh rates, the monitor has *nothing* to do with that stuff. The only thing that a monitor can change is what's on it's control panel.

 

[Breaker78]

Well, i know that windows sometimes detects what you have for a monitor, and the voodoo3 drivers may "automatically" lower the resolution if it can't detect a monitor that can support the higher resolutions. Just a hunch.

My V3 3000 does the samething.

 

[RagingGuardian]

I've been using the card for like 6 months and I find that it's only when someone powers down the monitor it happens.

 

[BuckMaster]

I have a Voodoo 3 running on a in Hitiach 17 monitor. It was almost doing the same as yours. The monitor wasnt storing the resolution. So after rebooting it would go back to its default settings. After D/Ling hitachi monitor drivers and removing the old monitor drivers it fixed my problem. Ive never ever seen anything as crazy as this, but it works now. Try reinstalling your drivers for your voodoo card if anything.

 

[vanderStoep]

Yes have it too on my v3 2000 pci, occasionally I go from 800*600 16 bit to 640*480 256 colors. I just hit the reset button and upon the restart It is back at 800*600*16. I have a oem 15` and use the winows standard p&p drivers for the monitor

 

[MrPALCO]

I have had the same problem with my VooDoo 3000 running a ViewSonic A90 19". The colors would stay at 16 bit, but the resolution would only go to 640-480 when I wanted 1074-768 and could not be changed by resetting.

I switched to VGA and reinstalled the VooDoo drivers from the CD and that fixed it.

I was baffled by the cause until I read what Breaker78 said:


<< Well, i know that windows sometimes detects what you have for a monitor, and the voodoo3 drivers may &quot;automatically&quot; lower the resolution if it can't detect a monitor that can support the higher resolutions. Just a hunch. >>


That got me thinking of a special instruction from page 6 of my ViewSonic manual:


<< Power on monitor then computer >>



Could it be if monitor is off, Windows can not get instructions on start up?....hmmmmm...

I will be following that instruction from now on, I'll report back on the result.