Bizarre Multiple Monitor Mayhem

madmat

I recently got another 21" monitor and after getting an adaptor for a monitor cable I had that was wrong I decided on some dually action. Well, after hooking everything up and firing up the PC I logged in and enabled the second monitor in my nVidia drivers and as the drivers were loading for the display adaptor my PC froze. After it decided to unfreeze I was at 640X480 with 4 colors and I got an error stating that there was a hardware malfunction.

After that everytime I reboot the PC with both monitors attached it does the same thing as the drivers load. I've tried setting the monitors (individually of course) to P'n'P then hooking them up and I still get the same thing.

I'm running the 81.85 WHQL drivers from nVidia so I'd doubt that they're the issue here but who the heck knows. If anyone has any ideas I'd sure love to hear them.

A quick rundown, both monitors work individually, both work on both ports (DVI & VGA) but when both are hooked up wham, problems like a SOB.

Sledgehammer70

Try hooking up 1 monitor at a time to the Graphics card, on each output. see if you get any issues there.

gibbonsl

have you tryed the new 84.21 drivers?

sounds like a driver problem

madmat

Yes, I've tried one at a time, both work great and I'll try new drivers just to see if that is the problem.

Sledgehammer70

Any luck with the drivers?

madmat

I haven't tried yet, I'm working on reviews right now plus TG site stuff.

TheSmJ

What video card is this specificly?

When the display snapped back to 640x480, were both monitors displaying an image, or just the original monitor?

I'm wondering if it's a power supply issue, but otherwise I'm stumped.

gibbonsl

I did have that problem with some crappy drivers