XP keeps changing my screens resolution

[tcc2f6]

I formatted my HD a bit ago and did a clean install of XP, everything is working great, however, whenever my computer boots up my screens resolution is different than what it was when I shut it down.

Currently I'm running a dual monitor on a Radeon 8500LE. Monitor 1 is a 21" CRT, and I have it at 1152x 864. The other monitor is a 15" samsung LCD running at 1024x 768 (which happens to be it's max res).

Whenever my computer boots up it makes both monitors have a 1024x768 res. It never did it before, and I'm not sure at all why XP is doing it now.

Any advice or tips would be much appreciated.

thanks
-ty

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: tcc2f6
I formatted my HD a bit ago and did a clean install of XP, everything is working great, however, whenever my computer boots up my screens resolution is different than what it was when I shut it down. Currently I'm running a dual monitor on a Radeon 8500LE. Monitor 1 is a 21" CRT, and I have it at 1152x 864. The other monitor is a 15" samsung LCD running at 1024x 768 (which happens to be it's max res). Whenever my computer boots up it makes both monitors have a 1024x768 res. It never did it before, and I'm not sure at all why XP is doing it now. Any advice or tips would be much appreciated.
thanks
-ty

Thats not XP, it's the fricken Catylst driver from ATI. For some reason it always forces both monitors to the same res on the 8500 cards (this machine with a 9700 if fine, the other one with the 8500 does this). I bugged this with ATI a few months ago, as I know others did, but no fix yet.

I work around it be setting a default profile in Ultramon and then having that applied at login time. If your running multimon you'll probably like Ultramon for the other features it gives you anyhow...

Bill

 

[tcc2f6]

bsobel

Thanks for the response...guess it's time for a new card. what is wierd is i had two monitors before hand and it didn't do this.

This may be dumb, but what is "Ultramon"? and where might i find this?

thanks again for the response
-ty

 

[tcc2f6]

nevermind, i new i should have just looked at google.

thanks ...

now the fun of choosing a video card...

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: tcc2f6
nevermind, i new i should have just looked at google.
thanks ... now the fun of choosing a video card...

Your right that this used to work, it wasn't until one of the newer Catalyst releases that this broke. But, with Ultramon and a default profile you won't notice as it will set the monitors to the right res/refresh when you login.

Bill