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Brodie 2008-02-07 18:47
I have recently got 4 gigs of ram for my computer and thats when i started having problems with ultramon. then main worry is that i cant enable my second moniter. Every time i click 'enable secondary' the screen will blink then my mouse mill move to the center of the screen then it will open up my time and date on the lower right, after that it ends up in in the top right hand corner of the screen and nothing will happen with my second display.
I am useing a 8800GTS with 2x 22'inch viewsonic.
this is whats in the about window-
2 monitors, 1 disabled
Current desktop: 1680x1050 (0,0 - 1680,1050)
Monitor 1 - ViewSonic VX2235wm (primary):
Settings: 1680x1050, 32-bit color, 60 Hz refresh rate
Coordinates: 0,0 - 1680,1050. Workspace: 0,0 - 1680,1020
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
Device: \\.\DISPLAY1\Monitor0
Monitor 2 - Default Monitor (disabled):
Settings: 800x600, 32-bit color, 60 Hz refresh rate
Coordinates: 1680,0 - 2480,600
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
Device: \\.\DISPLAY2
please help.
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Mark 2008-02-07 20:32
Brodie,
First of all, do both your monitors work OK without UltraMon running? Remove Ultramon from your system, reboot and see if all is OK? If it is then over to you Christian.
If not then;
1. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics card.
2. Check your memory. If you were running OK with 2gb then you need to look at the memory timings and voltages in your Bios as your PC will probably need different values for 4gb as opposed to 2gb (this depends on your motherboard though). Visit the Ram manufacturers website, they hopefully have the settings for your memory and motherboard combination.
4. Again with memory, you may need to check if all sims are working correctly. Would advise testign them all individually.
5. You do not mention what OS you are using as this will also influence how your memory is used.
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Brodie 2008-02-07 22:42
well I uninstalled UltraMon and i still cant get my second one to work, but i fogot to not that when i start up my computer the BIOS and the little microsoft loading bar appears on my other moniter.
1.yeah I had a look and I have the latest drivers.
2.I went to the ram manufacture website and I gave them a rundown of my system and they told me how to set it up.
3.I'm not sure what sims are but i have tested all the ram individually.
4.vista home pre, 64bit
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Mark 2008-02-07 23:28
OK,
When you boot your PC the monitor that has the Bios and Windows bar is the one that your Graphics card has as the Primary Monitor. It wil not effect anythign but I would swap the connections at the back of your PC so your main monitor is the one one which displays boot information.
If you have 2 sticks of memory then take one out and boot windows, see if you can enable the second monitor. If you have 4 sticks then take 2 out and boot... If you can enable the second monitor then is is definately a memory or memory resource issue.
If you still have an issue then it is more likely a driver or som other software issue causing this. Perhaps even Vista itself.
Either way you would be better off going to a forum linked to your graphics card as this is where the problem appears to be, irrespective of what may be causing it. That is the best place to start.
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Tom Ray 2008-02-08 02:32
Brodie,
Go into the Control Panel and open the Nvidia Control Panel. Under the main topic "Display" go to "Set up Multiple Displays". There you can select "The same on both displays (Clone)" or "Configured independently for each other (Dualview). Then you need to select the displays you would like to use and select the display you want Windows to use as primary.
HTHs
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Christian Studer 2008-02-08 11:32
Brodie, the main issue sounds like a video card driver or hardware problem, but the issue with the mouse getting moved around might be due to a bug in UltraMon which was fixed in the 3.0 Beta 2 release.
UltraMon shouldn't have any problems with the 4 GB of RAM, I'm using it on a 64-bit Vista system with 8 GB RAM myself without problems.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Brodie 2008-02-11 19:05
Thanks for the advice guys, I managed to get it working by turning it off unpluging 1 moniter then plug it in after i turned it back on. all running smooth now
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