had been running my pc w/ onboard graphics forever, a couple months ago i put a cheap fx5200 card in it. at that time i had an issue when i first installed the card. even though single monitor was selected it kept spanning the screen between the vga port on the fx5200 and the vga port on the mob. i was able to get it to stop by disabling the onboard graphics in device manager. all was fine after this. i did however always have a picture of 2 monitors in both the display settings in control panel and the nvidia control panel, which i always assumed was cus the card had two vga ports.
yesterday i got a new monitor. hooked it up, installed th driver that came w/ it and magictune. i briefly had both monitors hooked up to the fx5200 and enabled dual screen w/ same content on both screens, just for curiosity. then i set it back to single screen. then tried to run magictune, and got compatablilty issues. contacted samsung, they said to delete the drivers, and magictune, reboot and re-install both w/ antivirus turned off. i did and still got the same compatability error. so at this point i started to see if i could find somethign to fix it(mistake). so i deleted the onboard graphics driver in device manager rebooted and had no display at all. so i hooked a monitor up to the old onboard port to find that it was working, however the display was actually spanning across both monitors(one on fx5200 and one onboard) i just couldnt see anything on the one hooked to the fx5200 cus the logon was on the other screen. once logged in u coud see the desktop spanned across both monitors, and it looked like 6 or 8 color display. all settings show single display in both control panel and nvidia control panel. monitor selected shows my samsung, and graphics card enabled shows fx5200. no matter what i do it seems to span the screen across the two ports. also now when i look at the control panels there is not even an option to span 2 screens like there used to be. and when booting my samsung says resolution not set to optimum 1680x1050 at 60mhz, however in both control panels, that is exactly what i have it set to.
any ideas?.. i'm about to smash the thing.
thx
yesterday i got a new monitor. hooked it up, installed th driver that came w/ it and magictune. i briefly had both monitors hooked up to the fx5200 and enabled dual screen w/ same content on both screens, just for curiosity. then i set it back to single screen. then tried to run magictune, and got compatablilty issues. contacted samsung, they said to delete the drivers, and magictune, reboot and re-install both w/ antivirus turned off. i did and still got the same compatability error. so at this point i started to see if i could find somethign to fix it(mistake). so i deleted the onboard graphics driver in device manager rebooted and had no display at all. so i hooked a monitor up to the old onboard port to find that it was working, however the display was actually spanning across both monitors(one on fx5200 and one onboard) i just couldnt see anything on the one hooked to the fx5200 cus the logon was on the other screen. once logged in u coud see the desktop spanned across both monitors, and it looked like 6 or 8 color display. all settings show single display in both control panel and nvidia control panel. monitor selected shows my samsung, and graphics card enabled shows fx5200. no matter what i do it seems to span the screen across the two ports. also now when i look at the control panels there is not even an option to span 2 screens like there used to be. and when booting my samsung says resolution not set to optimum 1680x1050 at 60mhz, however in both control panels, that is exactly what i have it set to.
any ideas?.. i'm about to smash the thing.
thx
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