Sombody Help Me With My Secondary Monitor!

beedubaya · 09-August-04, 12:32 AM

I had to reformat recently and since then i have not been able to get my secondary monitor to work in Windows XP. My Radeon driver mistakes the secondary monitor for a YPbPr big screen TV device, whatever that is, and will not recognize it as a monitor. This has worked before, the secondary monitor is an AOC Spectrum 7Glr 17" connected through a VGA-DVI port. Before my reformat, all i had to do is plug it in and had the luxury of dual monitors. Now, I can't get it to work at all and everything i try screws it up so bad it requres a safe-mode system restore. I've tried different driver combinations and what-not, including different monitor drivers and the Omega drivers for my ATI card. How can I get this secondary monitor working?

SexyPants · 09-August-04, 01:20 AM

have you tried deleting the YPbPr Big Screen Device from your device manager to see if it will recognize it difrerently?

DuplexEmotions · 09-August-04, 01:24 AM

otherwise, try updating your drivers.

beedubaya · 09-August-04, 01:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DuplexEmotions


	otherwise, try updating your drivers.

The big screen device was never installed in my device manager, and i've changed drivers till i'm blue in the face.

DuplexEmotions · 09-August-04, 01:55 AM

blue in the face.

09-August-04, 12:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
beedubaya Apex Techie Lite Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Smith, AR Posts: 25	Sombody Help Me With My Secondary Monitor! I had to reformat recently and since then i have not been able to get my secondary monitor to work in Windows XP. My Radeon driver mistakes the secondary monitor for a YPbPr big screen TV device, whatever that is, and will not recognize it as a monitor. This has worked before, the secondary monitor is an AOC Spectrum 7Glr 17" connected through a VGA-DVI port. Before my reformat, all i had to do is plug it in and had the luxury of dual monitors. Now, I can't get it to work at all and everything i try screws it up so bad it requres a safe-mode system restore. I've tried different driver combinations and what-not, including different monitor drivers and the Omega drivers for my ATI card. How can I get this secondary monitor working? __________________

09-August-04, 01:20 AM	#2 (permalink)
SexyPants 5-Hoe-1 Jeans Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: New Orleans Posts: 3,182	have you tried deleting the YPbPr Big Screen Device from your device manager to see if it will recognize it difrerently? __________________

09-August-04, 01:24 AM	#3 (permalink)
DuplexEmotions Bi P-Hoe-lar Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,563	otherwise, try updating your drivers. __________________ I wrote a haiku but it is not very good so I won't share it. "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." -Albert Einstein

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DuplexEmotions Bi P-Hoe-lar Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,563	blue in the face.