trenchfoot
Lifer
just wondering if any of you have/had/or have heard of this problem with the 8500 aiw along with a fix:
installed latest drivers after installing dx 8.1 on a clean win98se install with latest via 4in1's, mobo drivers and all windoze updates. upon reboot after installing radeon drivers i got a split screen with two identical displays split horizontally, the top display being compressed to 1/3 of the screen and it's clone taking up most of the remainder. i adjusted the resolution and refresh and the screen retuned to normal. i noticed in device manager that the os decided to install a default pnp monitor after i installed the drivers for the monitor i'm using. i removed the default monitor from dvc mgr, de-selected "auto-detect PnP monitor" in advanced properties, rebooted and got into bios where i deselected PnP os, saved and continued the boot. as soon as the os got running the screen was normal but it decided to re-install the default pnp monitor, so i disabled that monitor in dvc mgr. all was well i thought. i then installed a game and latest patch for it. i started it up to see if alls well and that's when the split screen came back. i quit the game and came back to a normal screen. i installed another game and the same thing happened. i checked to see if the radeon drivers options had decided to install a ghost monitor or tv but there was none. curious though, after installing the drivers, a message appeared asking if i would like to set up a tv that it detected. however, i have no tv hooked up to the g-card and it's the only one installed.
installed latest drivers after installing dx 8.1 on a clean win98se install with latest via 4in1's, mobo drivers and all windoze updates. upon reboot after installing radeon drivers i got a split screen with two identical displays split horizontally, the top display being compressed to 1/3 of the screen and it's clone taking up most of the remainder. i adjusted the resolution and refresh and the screen retuned to normal. i noticed in device manager that the os decided to install a default pnp monitor after i installed the drivers for the monitor i'm using. i removed the default monitor from dvc mgr, de-selected "auto-detect PnP monitor" in advanced properties, rebooted and got into bios where i deselected PnP os, saved and continued the boot. as soon as the os got running the screen was normal but it decided to re-install the default pnp monitor, so i disabled that monitor in dvc mgr. all was well i thought. i then installed a game and latest patch for it. i started it up to see if alls well and that's when the split screen came back. i quit the game and came back to a normal screen. i installed another game and the same thing happened. i checked to see if the radeon drivers options had decided to install a ghost monitor or tv but there was none. curious though, after installing the drivers, a message appeared asking if i would like to set up a tv that it detected. however, i have no tv hooked up to the g-card and it's the only one installed.
