Win 7 Ultimate second monitor no video

Are you running Premiere Pro CS4 v 4.2?

Here is the Video Driver information from the Nvidia Control Panel,
see if it is the same as yours,

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 03/03/2010 16:21:12
System name: HAL-9000

[Display]
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (3005 MHz)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GTX 285
Driver version: 196.21
CUDA Cores: 240
Memory interface: 512-bit
Total available graphics memory: 4095 MB
Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 3071 MB
Video BIOS version: 62.00.45.00.80
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

[Components]

nvCplUI.exe 2.8.290.13 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA Video Server
nvMoblS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA Mobile Server
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.11.9621 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA Display Server
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.11.9621 NVIDIA Compatible Windows7 Display driver, Version 196.21
PhysX 09.09.0814 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.11.9621 NVIDIA CUDA 3.0.1 driver
nvGameS.dll 6.14.11.9621 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

MusicUCanSee said:

better? the one i have isn't the most expensive but has proven to be extremely reliable and is pretty new. what do you recommend?

Bare Foot Kid said:

@MusicUCanSee, you may want to get a better video card.

If I were going to, I wouldn't get anything less than this for what it sounds like you're into.

GeForce GTX 285

Bare Foot Kid said:

MusicUCanSee said:

better? the one i have isn't the most expensive but has proven to be extremely reliable and is pretty new. what do you recommend?

Bare Foot Kid said:

@MusicUCanSee, you may want to get a better video card.

If I were going to, I wouldn't get anything less than this for what it sounds like you're into.

GeForce GTX 285

that card is overkill for his system for what he is doing at the moment.
Premiere CS5 has GPU Accelerated Encoding but I am not sure when that will come out.
The 9600GT is perfectly fine for what he is doing.

Is that neck brace a prop or did he get in a car accident?
You guys don't hook a recorder to the mixing console?

MusicUCanSee said:

In addition to my premier production pro cs-4 I am running Matrox video editing software RT-X2. It does a great job of integrating the Adobe suite of programs seamlessly and allows me to combine hi def footage with sd stuff without too much hassle, I don't think it has any impact on what we're discussing but I thought I'd throw it out there.

The Matrox may be the issue.
We are still using XP on our RT-X2 system but that system has CS3 on it. I didn't know they had an update for Win 7 64bit for the Matrox.
I built ours using the component list of one of their test builds 2-3 years ago.

Try starting a non Matrox project and see if you have the same issue ( I can't remember if the Matrox logo will start up regardless of the project you start)