Vista Tutorial - Dual monitors "flip" when unlocking PC

I just installed Vista Business on my Dell XPS M170 laptop. I had been
running Vista RC1 with few problems.
I have an external 19" flat panel monitor connected to the DVI port on the
laptop, and have configured it as second monitor. I have it set up so that it
is to the left of my laptop screen (the laptop is the "primary" monitor).
This works fine until I lock the laptop.
I find that under the RTM version, when I unlock the laptop, the screens
appear normal for a second or two, then the orientaion "flips", i.e. the
external monitor now appears on the right side of the laptop screen. I can go
back and change it, but this happens *every* time I lock the laptop. Does
this seem to be a driver specfic issue? I am using the driver that Vista
installed automatically (NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX, V7.15.10.9746). I never
had this problem using RC1.

I guess I just answered my own question. I was able to roll back the video
driver to V5.70.2.19.12, and the problem went away, though other screen
refresh issues seem to have popped up. Looks like a job for the folks at
Nvidia.

"John R. Lewis, MCP" wrote:

> I just installed Vista Business on my Dell XPS M170 laptop. I had been
> running Vista RC1 with few problems.
> I have an external 19" flat panel monitor connected to the DVI port on the
> laptop, and have configured it as second monitor. I have it set up so that it
> is to the left of my laptop screen (the laptop is the "primary" monitor).
> This works fine until I lock the laptop.
> I find that under the RTM version, when I unlock the laptop, the screens
> appear normal for a second or two, then the orientaion "flips", i.e. the
> external monitor now appears on the right side of the laptop screen. I can go
> back and change it, but this happens *every* time I lock the laptop. Does
> this seem to be a driver specfic issue? I am using the driver that Vista
> installed automatically (NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX, V7.15.10.9746). I never
> had this problem using RC1.

Yes. The drivers are not final. All features still are not supported.

"John R. Lewis, MCP" <John R. Lewis, MCP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:6BE728F7-41A3-4421-AA54-7A4C3917F0EE@microsoft.com...
>I guess I just answered my own question. I was able to roll back the video
> driver to V5.70.2.19.12, and the problem went away, though other screen
> refresh issues seem to have popped up. Looks like a job for the folks at
> Nvidia.
>
> "John R. Lewis, MCP" wrote:
>
>> I just installed Vista Business on my Dell XPS M170 laptop. I had been
>> running Vista RC1 with few problems.
>> I have an external 19" flat panel monitor connected to the DVI port on
>> the
>> laptop, and have configured it as second monitor. I have it set up so
>> that it
>> is to the left of my laptop screen (the laptop is the "primary" monitor).
>> This works fine until I lock the laptop.
>> I find that under the RTM version, when I unlock the laptop, the screens
>> appear normal for a second or two, then the orientaion "flips", i.e. the
>> external monitor now appears on the right side of the laptop screen. I
>> can go
>> back and change it, but this happens *every* time I lock the laptop. Does
>> this seem to be a driver specfic issue? I am using the driver that Vista
>> installed automatically (NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX, V7.15.10.9746). I
>> never
>> had this problem using RC1.

I had the same problem on my Dell XPS M1210 Laptop and found that disabling
the "Windows Event Log" service solved the problem. Perhaps the new version
of NVDIDA drivers has a bug associated with event logging. Anyway for now
disabling this non-essential service seems to work... I figure something else
will crop up soon.

I'm running NVIDIA Ge Force Go 7400 with the version 7.15.10.9746 driver
from Dell.



"John R. Lewis, MCP" wrote:

> I just installed Vista Business on my Dell XPS M170 laptop. I had been
> running Vista RC1 with few problems.
> I have an external 19" flat panel monitor connected to the DVI port on the
> laptop, and have configured it as second monitor. I have it set up so that it
> is to the left of my laptop screen (the laptop is the "primary" monitor).
> This works fine until I lock the laptop.
> I find that under the RTM version, when I unlock the laptop, the screens
> appear normal for a second or two, then the orientaion "flips", i.e. the
> external monitor now appears on the right side of the laptop screen. I can go
> back and change it, but this happens *every* time I lock the laptop. Does
> this seem to be a driver specfic issue? I am using the driver that Vista
> installed automatically (NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX, V7.15.10.9746). I never
> had this problem using RC1.