A strange situation.

[drobson]

Recently, I installed a new video card, a GeForce GT 430 2048MB, and a new Samsung 23" monitor. I'm also running a 21" LG monitor. Both are flat screen LED monitors. I have the 23" Samsung setup as monitor ! and the LG as monitor 2. Quite regularly when I wake my system up (not really sleeping, just set to turn off after a set time period), my Icons, etc., on monitor 1 have moved to monitor 2. I then have to go to the screen resolution settings, and re-detect to get things back on the number 1 monitor.

I do not know why this happens, or how I can stop this behavior. There should be no reason for this, IMO. BTW, I am running this horrible OS called Win7, so that may have some bearing on it. I truly wish that I had not "downgraded" my system from XP to Win7.

I hope some of this makes sense to you, as it makes no sense to me.

Thanks,

Darrell

[IvanOhio]

Two things to check;

In Windows 7; Go into the Control Panel, Display, Screen Resolution < You can make adjustments to your monitors there.

The Nvidia Control Panel; You can control the monitors from there also.

Either one will help with setting up your monitors to the way you want.

Another suggestion would be go into your Power Options and make the following adjustments under Change Plan settings:

Turn off the display: NEVER

Put the computer to sleep: Never

Click on advanced power setting:

Find Sleep and make the following adjustments:

Sleep after: NEVER

Allow Hybrid sleep: OFF

Find Display and set Turn off display after: NEVER

This may help with the sleep issue. I have found that the sleep is a pain in the a$@ and can cause more headaches than it is worth.


Windows 7 is a very robust, stable, and secure operating system. XP is outdated and is coming to the end of its product life cycle. Windows 7 operating is far better, either 32bit and 64bit, for a computer.

Note that Mac OS X is being audited by Kaspersky (Anti-virus company) for security issues. They said that Windows 7 is way ahead of Mac OS X in security.

Hope this helped.

[drobson]

Thanks for the response. However, I've been through all those hoops dozens of times,and the problem still exists. I'm blaming win7 at this point, cause I've never had this happen with my XP system.

Darrell

[loki]

Which monitor does Windows see as monitor number 1? Does one of the monitors wake up faster than the other? If it doesn't see the monitor you have set as the primary when it wakes up, it will use the next.

I have had similar things happen under XP and Vista, so it is not a Win 7 issue. So far I have found Windows 7 works better with multiple monitors than Vista or XP.

[ScatterbrainKid]

Why have two monitors anyway?

[drobson]

Try it, you'll like it! I can have word on one, and excel on the other. Or, flightsim on one, and other panels---gps-radio stack, etc., on the other. There are multiple reasons/benefits of having dual monitors.

Darrell

[loki]

Definitely try two monitors sometime. Being able to have two programs open and visible makes my work so much easier. At home it is great for photo editing and games that support it. Flying with only one monitor is like driving a car while looking through a drinking straw.

[cdalvis]

Hello Darrell,

I've been using a dual-monitor configurations forever (before XP, Win 98) and have upgraded my video cards multiple times. Of the times I have had symptoms like yours, the problem has not been the version of Windows I was currently using. But, not uninstalling the old video card driver before installing the new video card. The new video card may be trying use the old video driver configuration and that will cause problems. You may want to try uninstalling the video driver, restart Windows 7 and then reinstall the newest downloaded video driver from Nvidia.

By the way, Windows 7 64-bit has been by far the best version I've ever used and has been very stable and reliable. So, don't throw the baby out with the bath water, yet.

Also, ScatterbrainKid, FSX and FS9 was designed with the capability to use dual-monitors or multiple-monitors, that's what motivated me to go with dual-monitors. On my primary I run FSX, on my secondary I run my system monitor gadgets and Tim Arnot's Plan G, works well for me.

Darrell, I don't know if this is your situation, but I wanted to offer some help with your aggravating problem. I hope this helps.