interesting one

[matsui]

so heres the background.

roomate inherited a machine. i put w2k sp4 on it.
threw in a g2 64meg pci w/tv out in there. on the monitor i was configuring it on, everything worked exactly as it should--the tv out showed all the output, the games played, it booted over and over without issue.

i put his compaq mv740 monitor back on the device and now it continually reboots. never finishes booting.

throw on another monitor, a third, and moves just fine.

that compaq mv740 however, works as it should if i disable the g2pci and run from the onboard. disable the onboard, run the pci again, not booting.
now, before i ran the latest detonators and the newest nview, (to take advantage of the tv out) this card and this monitor was moving right along, just not displaying tv signal properly.

im not sure what the next steps should be, maybe revert the drivers but keep the new nview? nview of course is avaialble as a seperate download.

anyone hit a problem with compaq monitors before? i checked the hp/compaq site and there are no specific drivers made for the monitor after w98, and nvidia knowledgebase says nothing about it either. what do you think?

[Strawbs]

Originally posted by matsui
... what do you think? I think ...therefore, I am.

Sorry, couldn't resist that. http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/rolleye/rolleye11.gif

Welcome to SysOpt BTW. Have you tried resetting the Resolution\Driver to VGA default before you switch monitors?

[CaptHandsome]

Some people may not think so, but I know a lot of people who dont uninstall drivers, so i have to ask. In all this switching video sources, did you make sure to uninstall drivers b4 you install new ones??

[matsui]

nope, that's a good one, missed that.
i cant imagine that a monitir is so specific driver wise though. i mean, in 7 years of paid professional troubleshooting ive never seen this. but i'll definitely try that.
still have to pull the card and monitor and throw them into one of my spare machines to be 101% certain it's the monitor and not the onboard video killing it off.

[matsui]

@cpthandsome

yup. ripped em right out

[matsui]

one at a time i went backwards version by version of the drivers, and finally, 4 back, it worked. mostly. should be fine