- Sep 23, 2013
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Guys I've been having this problem for ages and not a single expert so far has been able to provide me with a solution... It's the weirdest computer problem I've ever encountered and the only one i haven't been able to solve so far even after spending hours on google looking for similar issues.
I run Windows 7 with a GeForce GTX 660 Graphics card. I was able to run dual monitor display for a while normally until one day my second monitor decided that it wants to automatically shut itself down any time i told it to work.
What basically happens is when I try to extend my display to both monitors, the second monitor shows the desktop properly for a second before immediately going black.
Now here's the WEIRD part. There's NOTHING wrong with my hardware. Not the monitors nor the graphics card. Why I say this? Because once in a while when nVidia releases a new graphics card update, if I extend monitors while it's updating, sometimes it will work and my second monitor will not tell itself to immediately shut down like it always does. And voila, I finally have 2 monitors, BUT, only until the next time I turn off the computer or my second monitor is disabled (e.g. if i dont use the computer for some time). Then when I come back and move the mouse, the monitors come back to their working state but once again the second one goes black immediately.
So sometimes when there's an nVidia update i get it to work for a day, then it stops working at all again the second i disable it. What the hell is going on, how do I fix this?
This is clearly something software related with Windows that got something fucked up in its system and constantly tells my second monitor to shut down, keep for some random exceptions that occur when a new graphics card update is released that apparently tells the system to behave otherwise, but then again I dont know why it stops working after the next disable. This has really been getting on my nerves
I run Windows 7 with a GeForce GTX 660 Graphics card. I was able to run dual monitor display for a while normally until one day my second monitor decided that it wants to automatically shut itself down any time i told it to work.
What basically happens is when I try to extend my display to both monitors, the second monitor shows the desktop properly for a second before immediately going black.
Now here's the WEIRD part. There's NOTHING wrong with my hardware. Not the monitors nor the graphics card. Why I say this? Because once in a while when nVidia releases a new graphics card update, if I extend monitors while it's updating, sometimes it will work and my second monitor will not tell itself to immediately shut down like it always does. And voila, I finally have 2 monitors, BUT, only until the next time I turn off the computer or my second monitor is disabled (e.g. if i dont use the computer for some time). Then when I come back and move the mouse, the monitors come back to their working state but once again the second one goes black immediately.
So sometimes when there's an nVidia update i get it to work for a day, then it stops working at all again the second i disable it. What the hell is going on, how do I fix this?
This is clearly something software related with Windows that got something fucked up in its system and constantly tells my second monitor to shut down, keep for some random exceptions that occur when a new graphics card update is released that apparently tells the system to behave otherwise, but then again I dont know why it stops working after the next disable. This has really been getting on my nerves
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