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Not able to set up dual screen correctly on Nvidia 8800 GTS
Hi everyone, have been trawling the forums here this evening looking for answers - a wealth of knowledge, but none that I could find to help my situation! So here I am: post number 1!
In short, this is an older PC build that has worked pretty much flawlessly for >6 years, the last 2 of those happily with dual screens (and dual booting Win7 Home and various iterations of Linux) - a Samsung 20" Syncmaster and a BenQ 22".
~4 months ago I made a stupid error when playing around with a VM and nuked the Windows install, so just switched over to the Ubuntu partition and kept at it. Finally found time to reinstall Win7 this weekend just been, but I cannot for the life of me get the dual screen back up and running properly.
At first it wouldn't even recognise the BenQ - problem was cable independent and DVI output independent. Eventually, through some fluke of unplugging/replugging/powering on/off I managed to get it to recognise the BenQ, but at 1024x768 max resolution. It also showed up as a "generic non-PNP monitor" rather than the BenQ 22" blurb I used to get.
Through some more trial and error I used the Nvidia software that came with the latest drivers to force a non-standard resolution (1680 x 1050 - native for this panel). This worked!
Briefly.
It will now work quite happily on a fresh boot, but any sign of power management, PNP hardware scan or wake from sleep and I'm back to the Samsung only, and nothing but a reboot will recover it.
To answer the obvious questions that come to my mind:
* Hardware is absolutely unchanged from working
* Hardware has not been moved in any way
* ONLY difference between working install and non-working install (as best I can tell) is Win7 Home vs. Ultimate. Both 32 bit.
* Monitor continues to be detected properly as a BenQ 22" in Ubuntu, so it would appear the monitor is still quite OK.
* All drivers have been updated to the latest to the best of my knowledge
* Win 7 install is current, fully updated and activated.
Thanks in advance for any and all help!!
Axis.