Thursday, April 26, 2012

Dual video card, tv-out not working properly. ASAP please?!?

I have two Nvidia Geforce 7300 gs video cards installed, and I have on monitor hooked up right now. I tried hooking up my HDTV as a second monitor, and it works fine, but only in Clone mode, where it shows same screen on both. My windows are coming up offscreen with a single monitor or both screens. I can't get to my display options at all. I accidentally set the Tv as my main display monitor, but since it won't go into horizontal or vertical scan mode, it's not working. Help.... Email me if you need more info to answer this. Thanks much.|||Hiya Deadly,



Quite a pickle, ain't it.



Do this exactly and you will be hooked up in no time.



(If only the TV works you may have to switch the monitor from card to card or even temporarily remove the card attached to the TV to get the monitor lit up, but lets hope it doesn't come to that)



But first, once we get you to display properties, you MUST have the NVidia NView Desktop Manager in order to turn off Clone Mode. You can download it at the NVidia support site if it is not already installed and appearing in the control panel.



For Windows 2000 and higher versions only.



1. Disconnect the second "Main" monitor and power up using only the original.



2. After the beep or 3 seconds after the monitor lights up (whichever comes first), and start pressing the F8 key every 2 seconds. this will bring up the Windows Boot Options Menu. If you don't get it right away, restart and try again, sometimes it can be tricky to hit the F8 at the right time.



3. Select Safe Mode and hit ENTER to continue booting.



4. Windows will start with a message telling you about Safe Mode and it will not load the drivers for the other monitor. Once all the way in, go to your device manager and make sure the other monitor is not there, if it is delete it.



5. Go to display properties and remove the other monitor if present. The only monitor is now the Primary and will stay that way until you tell it otherwise.



6. Reboot using just the original monitor and once in Windows, verify that you have NView Desktop Manager installed. If it is not there, download and install it.



7. Now, while in Windows, and the NView is working, plug in the other monitor and configure NView to your favorite configuration.





We are done.



GOOD LUCK!!|||Just get an ATI.

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