Anyways, I had a dual-monitor setup on my machine with XP and it worked flawlessly. But with Vista 64-bit, I cant get it to work.
I am running an nVidia GeForce 7900 GT/GTO graphics card and I downloaded the nVidia 64 bit drivers (that were released a month or so ago). The drivers for the card are totaly up to date from the manufacturer.
My primary monitor (HP w2007 Widescreen) works fine when plugged in. But as soon as I try to extend my desktop to a sony SPD-S205F/G monitor, the display on the Sony monitor is fine, but the display on the HP monitor goes gets totally scrambled. I was able to get it configured by swapping primary/secondary configuration of the monitors, i.e. changing the DVI inputs, and it worked very briefly. But then, if you brought up VLC, the screen snowed up again.
The one thing I've noticed is that if I use the nVida control panel, it recognizes my second monitor properly as a Sony. But if you go into the Vista device manager, it has it setup as a Generic PnP Monitor. There are no Sony drivers that I can download (it says "no drivers available" on the sony page) and when I found my old disk, Vista won't let me install because it says the drivers aren't compatible.
So I'm thinking this is definitely a hardware issue, but I'm not sure if it's the display adapter (since both monitors will snow up) or if it's something with the older Sony Monitor. I don't mind swapping out hardware (my wife may, but I don't :-) ), but I want to make sure I'm swapping out the right hardware. Any advice is greatly appreciated. If you're in the Denver Colorado area, I'll buy you beers if you can help me. :-)
I am running an nVidia GeForce 7900 GT/GTO graphics card and I downloaded the nVidia 64 bit drivers (that were released a month or so ago). The drivers for the card are totaly up to date from the manufacturer.
My primary monitor (HP w2007 Widescreen) works fine when plugged in. But as soon as I try to extend my desktop to a sony SPD-S205F/G monitor, the display on the Sony monitor is fine, but the display on the HP monitor goes gets totally scrambled. I was able to get it configured by swapping primary/secondary configuration of the monitors, i.e. changing the DVI inputs, and it worked very briefly. But then, if you brought up VLC, the screen snowed up again.
The one thing I've noticed is that if I use the nVida control panel, it recognizes my second monitor properly as a Sony. But if you go into the Vista device manager, it has it setup as a Generic PnP Monitor. There are no Sony drivers that I can download (it says "no drivers available" on the sony page) and when I found my old disk, Vista won't let me install because it says the drivers aren't compatible.
So I'm thinking this is definitely a hardware issue, but I'm not sure if it's the display adapter (since both monitors will snow up) or if it's something with the older Sony Monitor. I don't mind swapping out hardware (my wife may, but I don't :-) ), but I want to make sure I'm swapping out the right hardware. Any advice is greatly appreciated. If you're in the Denver Colorado area, I'll buy you beers if you can help me. :-)