Nvidia dualview

Hello:

I'm running Windows 2000 with an Nvidia GeForce 440MX graphics card.
Yesterday, having done nothing unusual, I started up the PC and it told
me that it had miraculously "found new hardware" -- Nvidia Dualview. At
the same time I find that my display has gone wrong. Resolution has
been set to 480 x 640, I can't run any programs that require DirectX,
and in my display settings I can't change from 16 colours. I don't know
what Nvidia Dualview is and I don't want it. I just want to get back to
where I was before.

Can anyone help me? What things should I try?

Thanks.

On 20 Sep 2005 02:05:25 -0700, wrote:

I'm running Windows 2000 with an Nvidia GeForce 440MX graphics card.
Yesterday, having done nothing unusual, I started up the PC and it told
me that it had miraculously "found new hardware" -- Nvidia Dualview. At
the same time I find that my display has gone wrong. Resolution has
been set to 480 x 640, I can't run any programs that require DirectX,
and in my display settings I can't change from 16 colours. I don't know
what Nvidia Dualview is and I don't want it. I just want to get back to
where I was before.

It's probable that the video drivers or windows have become corrupted.
The card could have failed, but I've never seen this happen.

Download the drivers for W2K from the nvidia website and install them:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html

look for 56.72.

You can get the latest drivers from:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

but they are optimised for newer cards and run slowly on older video
cards.



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I've reinstalled the drivers but no joy. Device manager says the
graphics card and its drivers are "working properly" but Display
properties says that it's using Default Monitor on VGA. It sounds to me
like the graphics card is installed ok, but I just need to get WIndows
using it. Any ideas?

Thanks.

On 25 Sep 2005 14:40:42 -0700, wrote:

I've reinstalled the drivers but no joy. Device manager says the
graphics card and its drivers are "working properly" but Display
properties says that it's using Default Monitor on VGA. It sounds to me
like the graphics card is installed ok, but I just need to get WIndows
using it. Any ideas?

You could try installing the Monitor (not the video card). Try to get
the computer to recognise the monitor which it can do if it's a
reasonably new monitor. If it's an old monitor, choose an appropriate
resolution setting like 800x600 or 1024x768.


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