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Monitor/Graphics Card Weirdness
Installed a nVidia 6600GT 8x-AGP to take advantage of faster rendering speeds with Magic Bullet Editors plug-in and installed latest nVidia driver for that card (81.98). When I right click an .avi file, the primary monitor (LCD w/vga input) goes black for about 2 seconds, but the secondary monitor does not. BUT, the Secondary screen does not stay centered or fill up the monitor from time to time. To correct that, I bring up Display Properties, click Settings, then Advanced. Both monitors go black for about 2 seconds, and when they come back up, the Secondary monitor displays a centered and filled screen.
When running a Matrox Parhelia, these things never happened. 100% stable.
In hopes of correcting this annoying issue, I didn’t install the Decklink Display driver (don’t need a third display), and I disabled the “Unknown Device” under Displays in Device Manager. Didn’t work. When the Decklink Display driver was installed, the Primary Monitor went black randomly every few seconds or minutes.
Has anybody out there experienced any of this with nVidia (or any other) cards and/or have any thoughts about what might be causing it? BTW, I checked MSCONFIG/IRQ and found no conflicts.
Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co.OS: Win XP Pro, SP2
MB: SM X5DA8
RAM: 3GB
CPU: Dual 3ghz Xeon
Vid Capture: Decklink Extreme
Decklink Driver: 5.2.2
Sys HDD: WD 7200rpm ide
Audio HDD: WD 7200rpm ide
Vid Storage: 3.5TB Across 2 RAIDCore Sata Arrays (RAID5)
Software: Adobe Prem Pro 1.5, Encore 1.5, Audition 1.5, AE 6.5
Plug-ins: Red Giant Magic Bullet Editors V2 -
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Yes I have this in one suite with a 6800GT and analog VGAs. It seems like the monitors blank out when something affects sync, then they take their time locking up again. Identical suite with DVI monitors doesn’t do it.
It doesn’t happen within an application but when switching between some apps. I was going to look at NVidia’s setup and see if there is a way to change the sync control from “application” to always on and see if that fixes it. If I find a sol’n I’ll post it.
Shane
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Thanks, Shane. Look forward to hearing your results.
Bill Buchanan
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We have a 6600GT (PCI Express) which produces what looks like a mirror of the project window contents on the RHS of the primary monitor and LHS of the sec. monitor just in front of the task bar!
Latest drivers make no diff.
Probably unrelated but I just thought I’d post it in case.
(Can anyone better this!!)OS: Win XP Pro, SP2
MB: P5WD2
RAM: 2GB Cor
CPU: Dual core 3GHz
Vid Capture: Decklink Extreme
Decklink Driver: 5.3.1
Sys HDD: WD 7200rpm ide
Vid Storage: 4x250GB WD SATA on board raid 0
Software: Adobe Prem Pro 1.5.1, Encore 1.5, Audition 1.5, AE 6.5(UD)Regards,
Geoff Gartside
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Bill
You might want to try this. Get into advanced display properties, click on Geforce 6600, click on performance and quality settings, click on vertical sync and untoggle application controlled and set to “on”. It seemed to help my setup. Now I only black out going in and out of display settings….oh and when my wife asks me to fix something.
Shane
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Shane:
Tried your suggestions, but unfortunately they didn’t have any positive effect. I think the nVidia driver is not getting along very well with something in my sys. Perhaps future drivers will resolve the issues. Nonetheless thanks for your effort.
Bill
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