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MadHatter 2004-04-17 16:03
the other day I tried out ultramon at work and it worked great. when I got home I decided to plug in an old monitor and give it a go.
I downloaded and installed the software with only my primary monitor installed nnd it yelled at me because it didnt (rightly) see a second monitor.
I shutdown and installed the second monitor and booted up. when windows came to, I tried to adjust the video settings and the screen went blank and when it came to, it said that windows had just recovered from a device failure, and both screens were 600x480 and both displaying the primary screen. this happened 2-3 times before I uninstalled the application and upgraded to the latest nvidia drivers.
the strange thing is that I have this box on a dual boot with linux, and after the first device failure the grub bootloader which is normally full color what black and white, no color. I've since gone and wiped grub off and reinstalled it and it remains black and white...
now, when I go to play counter-strike (old game, which used to run at 100fps solid all day long on my asus GforceFX5600) I get really bad framerates. I tried tweaking the refresh rates on my system to no avail.
does ultramon do any bios flashing of any sort? I cant seem to find the source of the problem, and it seems odd that normal software would cause an independent boot loader to change its rendering unless something went terribly wrong with the card itself. I installed the latest drivers for the card--same thing; rolled them back--same thing, nothing seems to work and I am getting really frustrated.
System specs:
amd 1.3 thunderbird
pny 1 gig ram
gigibit (something something mb)
Asus GforceFX5600 video suite
windows xP (current service packs all installed)
redhat 7.3 (I forget which kernel I'm on tho:S)
samsung 900S primary monitor
viewsonic 4E secondary monitor (no longer installed)
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Christian Studer 2004-04-17 23:57
UltraMon doesn't change BIOS settings or do other low-level interaction with the hardware.
I don't know what would cause the problem you mentioned, but it's very unlikely that it is related to UltraMon.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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