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Old 05-01-2002, 06:46 PM   #1
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Unhappy Multiple display problem - please help !?!

I have a motherboard with on-board graphics, and I installed an ATI xpert@play with TV-out into a PCI slot. It worked fine for over a year, with the TV replicating the same picture that appeared on the monitor.

Last week I accidentally powered up without the monitor or TV plugged in to the PC. Then I plugged in the monitor but was unable to get a picture - eventually it told me windows had auto-detected it. I wasn't able to get any picture although I could log into Win98 just fine by entering my password (no display but I heard the correct sounds for windows startup).

After rebooting there was still no picture so I plugged in the TV and rebooted. The display came up on the TV. Now the TV is set as display #1 (shown in Control panel as connected to the PCI graphics card) and the monitor is set as display #2 (shown in control panel as connected to the on-board graphics). The desktop extends to display #2, but don't show the same picture.

I am unable to change the primary display in BIOS because when I boot, the picture only displays on the TV (being display 1), and setup will not display on the TV (it goes fuzzy - wrong frequency). Is there any way to change the primary display back to being the monitor without entering setup?

I have tried everything but any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.
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Old 05-01-2002, 07:47 PM   #2
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I wonder if you could remove the drivers for the card (in the control panel-device manager)-shut down-then restart and reload the drivers??-Just an Idea??
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