shuttle mn31n + WinXP problem

seversphere

This is the nforce2 matx board from shuttle with dual onboard vga. I run my Folding rigs headless but occasionally need to hook up kb/mouse and monitor to do bios changes and check on stability. I installed WinXP on this board and installed board drivers off the cd. When I went to place it amongst the other monkeys I found that if the machine is booted without the monitor connected to the onboard vga, the next time I boot up I lose video right after the blue scrolling bar + WinXP screen but windows continues to load and EMIII starts F@H client. I managed to use system restore and found the problem alleviated. So I need to see if a solution can be found to prevent WinXP from changing whatever when no monitor is connected to the onboard vga. A little more detail here from my all night fun while I was at work

Do you think the latest nforce chipset drivers might fix this or is it just WinXP?

Spinner

I had a similar annoyance like this a while back. Unfortunately, I think it's just an inherent Windows XP thing, I'm hesitant to call it an XP problem simply because it is only doing what it's supposed to, it's just sometimes, what it's supposed to do, isn't always what we want it to do.

I would suggest slapping in a proper GPU card, but I sense that the graphics card isn't the problem.

Just my thoughts.

Cheers

seversphere

putting in a vid card defeats the purpose of buying this board for the onboard vga. I am however going to put one in and see if the problem still comes up. That would make it more of a WinXP + nforce2 thing than just WinXP cause I've never had this problem on other WinXP machines using VIA chipsets.

What hardware did you have a similar problem on?

Spinner

System 2 in my sig. VIA KT266. It was driver related, and was to do with the DVI and RGB alternation on my TFT monitor.