Multiple display question

Cynicize · 01-09-2006, 09:33 AM

About a month ago, I had this set up perfectly, but then unhooked the CRT monitor to work on a friend's computer..now I can't find this setting again.

First of all, I'll say what I have, then what I'm trying to do again.

Video card: GeForce FX 5200 (256-MB)
one 19" LCD monitor
one 17" CRT monitor

Now...the way I had it set up before, I could use both monitors...drag a window over to the secondary display and all that. The taskbar at the bottom (with start menu) stayed on the primary display. All that was on the secondary was the wallpaper. When I maximized a window in my primary display it stayed completely in the primary.

Now when I go back to do it (unless I'm doing something wrong...which I know I am...) the window maximizes across both screens...I do not want this. I want to keep them seperate, and be able to put a whole window on the 2nd.

I also have the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager, Version 105.31

I could just revert my PC back to before I did all this, but I'm trying to avoid that, as I've deleted a lot of things since then that I don't want reappearing.

jimscreechy · 01-10-2006, 12:26 AM

All is not lost, I have had this problem too and then some. It seems to happen either when you 'sometimes' disconnect a monitor, or in my case switch to a new Graphics card. Do you have the drivers for this card? unistall it then reinstall. This should reset the settings and allow you to change them how you had them.

This is a weird problem and I did as I have described and gone through the menu's 2wice or 3 times with it not taking the setting, then suddenly, on the fourth go everything works. It is not your fault. This is a typical example of engineers and software developers releasing unstable packages that perform erratically. What a b****!

**mgoldb2** · 01-10-2006, 12:48 AM

right click wall paper, prperties, settings, advanced, your graphic card tab, nview display settings, change it from horizontal spam to dual view. that should fix it.

If dual view not a option that mean windows not finding one of your monitors(yes it possiable for nview to detect both monitors but not windows). Post back if that the case.

01-09-2006, 09:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
Cynicize Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 23 OS: Windows XP	Multiple display question About a month ago, I had this set up perfectly, but then unhooked the CRT monitor to work on a friend's computer..now I can't find this setting again. First of all, I'll say what I have, then what I'm trying to do again. Video card: GeForce FX 5200 (256-MB) one 19" LCD monitor one 17" CRT monitor Now...the way I had it set up before, I could use both monitors...drag a window over to the secondary display and all that. The taskbar at the bottom (with start menu) stayed on the primary display. All that was on the secondary was the wallpaper. When I maximized a window in my primary display it stayed completely in the primary. Now when I go back to do it (unless I'm doing something wrong...which I know I am...) the window maximizes across both screens...I do not want this. I want to keep them seperate, and be able to put a whole window on the 2nd. I also have the NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager, Version 105.31 I could just revert my PC back to before I did all this, but I'm trying to avoid that, as I've deleted a lot of things since then that I don't want reappearing.

01-10-2006, 12:26 AM	#2 (permalink)
jimscreechy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UK Posts: 372 OS: xp	All is not lost, I have had this problem too and then some. It seems to happen either when you 'sometimes' disconnect a monitor, or in my case switch to a new Graphics card. Do you have the drivers for this card? unistall it then reinstall. This should reset the settings and allow you to change them how you had them. This is a weird problem and I did as I have described and gone through the menu's 2wice or 3 times with it not taking the setting, then suddenly, on the fourth go everything works. It is not your fault. This is a typical example of engineers and software developers releasing unstable packages that perform erratically. What a b***! __________________ []Intel Q6600 []2GB Samsung DDR3[]EVGA 790i Motherboard[]2 x Asus Geforce 8800GTX, Thermaltake Duorb VGA coolers[]OCZ 850 GameXtreme[*]Adaptec 3805 Raid adaptor A Custom made car is always better than its production alternative.

01-10-2006, 12:48 AM	#3 (permalink)
mgoldb2 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 604 OS: windows xp	right click wall paper, prperties, settings, advanced, your graphic card tab, nview display settings, change it from horizontal spam to dual view. that should fix it. If dual view not a option that mean windows not finding one of your monitors(yes it possiable for nview to detect both monitors but not windows). Post back if that the case. __________________