Display changes


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       #1

    Display changes


    Hi, my display sometimes changes from Monitor2 to Monitor1 where I lose all my desktop items. I have set Monitor2 as my default but it still reverts to Monitor1 sometimes. How can I prevent this from happening.
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       #2

    You'll have to provide a bit more info mate. Do you have a dual monitor setup? What graphics card are you using?
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       #3

    Boozad said:
    You'll have to provide a bit more info mate. Do you have a dual monitor setup? What graphics card are you using?
    I have a NVIDIA Ge Force 7500LE graphics card, when I click on Screen Resolution it lists 2 Monitors - Generic Non-PnP & Generic PnP but I do not have 2 monitors (never had) connected. The Generic PnP one is OK but for some reason when I start up it reverts to the Generis Non PnP one.
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       #4

    Try uninstalling the graphics card via Device Manager, then do a fresh install of the drivers after rebooting. Or alternatively just try uninstalling the Non-PnP monitor and see if it forces the one you have connected to the primary display.
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    Boozad said:
    Try uninstalling the graphics card via Device Manager, then do a fresh install of the drivers after rebooting. Or alternatively just try uninstalling the Non-PnP monitor and see if it forces the one you have connected to the primary display.
    Hi Boozad, Thanks for your help - I have done both your suggestions and have even painfully reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch! Could it be one of the Windows updates that is causing the problem?
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       #6

    What cable are using to connect from your GPU to your monitor?
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    Boozad said:
    What cable are using to connect from your GPU to your monitor?
    The same standard one that I have been using on this setup for the last 5 years. It is only in the last 4 weeks that this problem started.
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       #8

    Do you have an onboard graphics option you could try to rule out the GPU?
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    Boozad said:
    Do you have an onboard graphics option you could try to rule out the GPU?
    Hi Boozad,
    It went wrong again today and the only option I could use was Safe Mode - so I uninstalled the display driver, then it wouldn't re-install it so I went to the NVDIA site, downloaded the "Check your system" from there and it downloaded a different driver, so I think that might solve the problem.
    Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
    Lewis
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       #10

    Glad you're getting somewhere mate, let us know how it turns out. Hopefully all's well from here on in.
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