My desktop PC was hooked up to my TV and would randomly switch to using the TV as the main monitor often disabling my monitor. I thought it was my NVIDIA card so I upgraded to a newer ATI card. The new card has 2 monitor outputs and a S-video output. The problem no appears to only happen overnight. The next morning my PC is still on and awake but the display is changed to a lower setting. I have to enable a second monitor, which i do not have, before it will allow me to fix the resolution of the monitor I do have. Right now I have a bigger problem where it looks like it switched the TV to being the main monitor and I no longer have a TV hooked up (Its mounted on another floor of my house) so I cannot get to the screen to fix the problem. I tried plugging the monitor into the other port (sometimes it just switches ports) but that is not the problem. Thanks for any help.
Display setting randomly switching
- Thread starter Duncandog
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thepizzaman
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hm... is your monitor turning off during the night? and that causing the change?
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Acer, Aspire M1201\Custom Build
- CPU
- AMD Athlon X2 5000+ @ 2.6Ghz
- Motherboard
- Acer Micro-ATX Motherboard
- Memory
- 2x2gb Patriot Viper DDR2 PC6400 @ 800mhz Dual Channel SLI Edition (4-4-4-12)
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI HD3870 with 512mb GDDR4
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD 7.1 Onboard Sound
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 22" Acer X223 Widescreen
- Screen Resolution
- 1680 X 1050
- Hard Drives
- 320gb Western Digital SATA II (Ubuntu 9.10)
500gb Seagate SATA II
1tb Seagate SATA II (Vista Home Premium)
- PSU
- ULTRA X3 600 Watt Modular
- Case
- NZXT Tempest (The Airflow King) 2x 140mm Fans, 4x 120mm Fans
- Cooling
- 1x 135mm In PSU, 1x 70mm On CPU, And 1x 120mm On GPU
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Sidewinder X6
- Mouse
- Microsoft Sidewinder X5
- Internet Speed
- 6 Mbs Down 1 Mbs Up
- Other Info
- AVerMedia 1500MCE TV Tuner
Logitech X540 5.1 Surround Sound
thepizzaman
Banned
hm... which driver are you using?
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Acer, Aspire M1201\Custom Build
- CPU
- AMD Athlon X2 5000+ @ 2.6Ghz
- Motherboard
- Acer Micro-ATX Motherboard
- Memory
- 2x2gb Patriot Viper DDR2 PC6400 @ 800mhz Dual Channel SLI Edition (4-4-4-12)
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI HD3870 with 512mb GDDR4
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD 7.1 Onboard Sound
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 22" Acer X223 Widescreen
- Screen Resolution
- 1680 X 1050
- Hard Drives
- 320gb Western Digital SATA II (Ubuntu 9.10)
500gb Seagate SATA II
1tb Seagate SATA II (Vista Home Premium)
- PSU
- ULTRA X3 600 Watt Modular
- Case
- NZXT Tempest (The Airflow King) 2x 140mm Fans, 4x 120mm Fans
- Cooling
- 1x 135mm In PSU, 1x 70mm On CPU, And 1x 120mm On GPU
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Sidewinder X6
- Mouse
- Microsoft Sidewinder X5
- Internet Speed
- 6 Mbs Down 1 Mbs Up
- Other Info
- AVerMedia 1500MCE TV Tuner
Logitech X540 5.1 Surround Sound
ATI Radeon HD 4650 ver. 8.620.0.0 I don't remember what the driver name and version for the NVIDIA card was but had the same problem. Pretty sure its a Vista problem and not a card problem. (2 cards same problem).
My Computer
thepizzaman
Banned
hm..... have you got a spare harddrive to do a clean install and test and see if its vista?
My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Acer, Aspire M1201\Custom Build
- CPU
- AMD Athlon X2 5000+ @ 2.6Ghz
- Motherboard
- Acer Micro-ATX Motherboard
- Memory
- 2x2gb Patriot Viper DDR2 PC6400 @ 800mhz Dual Channel SLI Edition (4-4-4-12)
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI HD3870 with 512mb GDDR4
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD 7.1 Onboard Sound
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 22" Acer X223 Widescreen
- Screen Resolution
- 1680 X 1050
- Hard Drives
- 320gb Western Digital SATA II (Ubuntu 9.10)
500gb Seagate SATA II
1tb Seagate SATA II (Vista Home Premium)
- PSU
- ULTRA X3 600 Watt Modular
- Case
- NZXT Tempest (The Airflow King) 2x 140mm Fans, 4x 120mm Fans
- Cooling
- 1x 135mm In PSU, 1x 70mm On CPU, And 1x 120mm On GPU
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Sidewinder X6
- Mouse
- Microsoft Sidewinder X5
- Internet Speed
- 6 Mbs Down 1 Mbs Up
- Other Info
- AVerMedia 1500MCE TV Tuner
Logitech X540 5.1 Surround Sound