Dual monitor trouble on Asus EAX800 card

[Mycranium]

Hi

My specs:
Mobo: Asus A8V-E Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4000+
RAM: 2GB Crucial PC3200 DDR
Display card: Asus EAX8002DTV (Radeon X800 VPU) (PCI-E)
OS: WinXP Pro, SP2
Monitors: 2 Viewsonic VX900-2 using vga inputs
Audio: on-board AC97
Ethernet: On-board Gigabit lan controller

I am having problems getting consistency out of my dual monitor setup.
My color settings are not retained when I restart the computer, and
often I have to reset them after switching users. Once I click the
"color" tab in display properties>settings>advanced, my saved settings
load without further changes by me.

Also, occasionally the primary display will have the desktop icons, but
the taskbar will be on the secondary monitor. This doesn't happen very
often, but once in a while it does.

I have not done anything funky or made any changes to the registry.

I have reinstalled the Via chipset drivers and installed the latest
driver for the display card at the recommendation of Asus. I have
installed the latest monitor drivers. I have checked the display
settings - the correct monitor is selected for primary.

Asus tech support says it must be the OS. They don't have anything to
suggest if installing new drivers doesn't work, as it hasn't.

Can anyone help solve this? It sucks because the problem keeps
mutating. It used to just be the color settings, now it's the taskbar
thing too.

Thanks!
-Mike

 

[Walter Clayton]

I assume you're using only a single video card, since that's all you list.

If so, the problem is ATI's. XP does not natively support multi-head cards.
XP's multi-mon requires multiple video cards.

I've been running two separate video cards for years, albeit NVidia, without
the issues you report.

 

[Guest]

How To Configure and Use Multiple Monitors in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307873

UltraMon (dual monitor)
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

 

[Mycranium]

Thanks for the replies. The card does have dual outputs.

I searched the MS KB using "dual" but not "multiple." I'll read that
article. I'll also bounce back to ATI and see if they will help.

-Mike