Severe Graphics Issue

i have a friend who has just offered up his GTX460 card for $200-. has only been used for 3 weeks. he has setup his pc with 3 screens on an ATI5870 card. he lives about 2 hrs drive away and i'm heading off to melbourne this afternoon to spend 3 days at friends place for new years, so i'll pick this topic up when i get back.


will keep you all posted,
have a great and safe new year all.

Angus94

thanks Fabe, hopefully it's just a bad card, like i said earlier.......picking up a GTX460 on monday arvo

Hi all, well i picked up the GTX460, got it home and put it in, booted the pc and voila!, away she went, so there's something wrong with my 1 year old GTX260 card.

however i still have a problem with the second monitor i'm, an ACER G225HQ LCD, was working perfectly before the card crash.

the GTX260 has a DVI & VGA inputs
the GTX460 has 2 DVI inputs

the acer came with both VGA & DVI cables, i tried the DVI cable and no luck, i used a VGA adaptor andtried the VGA cable and no luck, i have downloaded and installed the latest eDisplay Management software which has the latest drivers in it for ACER monitors, that hasn't worked.

i've been into the nVidia control panel and enabled dual monitors, the monitor works perfectly but shows the complete desktop on it, if i set the "show desktop only on 1" it boots up on the samsung, if i select "show desktop only on 2", then it will boot up on the ACER.

got me beat

well, i'm scratching my head over this one......i got up this morning and approached this problem from a different angle. i had the latest drivers in for everything, monitors, video card etc. so i re-installed the drivers for the GTX460 again.......and blow me down the second monitor came up.

so it looks like i have sorted this out........somehow,

thanks for everyone's help, right from the start.

cheers
Angus94