Dual Monitors crash Access when running in Secondary Monitor

[Christie Hollingsworth]

I am using MS Access 2000. I have used different variations of computers and
video cards and this is a very
repeatable problem. Access hangs when I do a "search" in a form only after I
move from an open Word document in the primary monitor to Access in the
secondary monitor.

Access won't hang if its in the primary monitor and Word in the secondary
monitor. Go figure.
Why would it work fine in one monitor and hang up in the other.
I wonder if MS Access 2003 has solved this problem?
Any help is appreciated.
Christie

 

[Allen Browne]

Hi Christie.

This sounds like a problem with the driver for your video card. I constantly
use dual monitors to edit Access 2000, and 2003 (and occasionally 2002),
with Word open as well (when writing documentation), and sometimes with
multple copies of Access open (when importing data.)

I have no crashes that I attribute to the monitor setup, and I have actually
flipped one of the monitors on its side, so the code window shows an entire
page of code at one time. Been doing this for years now. It looks like this:
http://allenbrowne.com/temp/0417_Monitors.jpg

 

[Allen Browne]

Actually, there was interesting one corruption, though I doubt the
dual-monitor setup was a factor.

I had Access 2003 and Access 2000 open at the same time, with the VBA editor
open for both. In the A2000 window, I created a new (blank) database, and
proceeded to import stuff from the other database. The new database was
ended up with a reference to the Access 11.0 library instead of the Access
9.0 library, so it was unusable. I suspect this has to do with the way the
Access and VBA windows are cobbled together, rather than dual monitors.

Ever since, I have been leary of creating a new database when multiple
versions of Access are open at the same time. (This is not a factor with
A97, as the VBA IDE was properly integrated in earlier versions of Access.)

 

[Christie Hollingsworth via AccessMonster.com]

Allen,

Thanks. I have tried multiple video cards (3 different types) on two
different computers so I'm not sure it could be the card driver unless all
three of them were bad???

I'm no computer expert but would reloading Access and possibly Office help
solve this?

I'm using Access 2000. Do you think Access 2003 would work better. I haven't
purchased it yet but I might if it solves this one.

Thanks,
Christie

Hi Christie.

This sounds like a problem with the driver for your video card. I constantly
use dual monitors to edit Access 2000, and 2003 (and occasionally 2002),
with Word open as well (when writing documentation), and sometimes with
multple copies of Access open (when importing data.)

I have no crashes that I attribute to the monitor setup, and I have actually
flipped one of the monitors on its side, so the code window shows an entire
page of code at one time. Been doing this for years now. It looks like this:
http://allenbrowne.com/temp/0417_Monitors.jpg

I am using MS Access 2000. I have used different variations of computers
and

[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]

Any help is appreciated.
Christie

 

[Charlie Hoffpauir]

Allen,

Thanks. I have tried multiple video cards (3 different types) on two
different computers so I'm not sure it could be the card driver unless all
three of them were bad???

I'm no computer expert but would reloading Access and possibly Office help
solve this?

I'm using Access 2000. Do you think Access 2003 would work better. I haven't
purchased it yet but I might if it solves this one.

Thanks,
Christie

Hi Christie.

This sounds like a problem with the driver for your video card. I constantly
use dual monitors to edit Access 2000, and 2003 (and occasionally 2002),
with Word open as well (when writing documentation), and sometimes with
multple copies of Access open (when importing data.)

I have no crashes that I attribute to the monitor setup, and I have actually
flipped one of the monitors on its side, so the code window shows an entire
page of code at one time. Been doing this for years now. It looks like this:
http://allenbrowne.com/temp/0417_Monitors.jpg

I am using MS Access 2000. I have used different variations of computers
and

[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]

Any help is appreciated.
Christie

FWIW, I have Access 2000 and have run it (at different times) on three
different computers, each with dual monitors, using 3 different dual
monitor video cards,under both Win 98SE and Win XP, and I've never
seen this problem.
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

 

[Allen Browne]

Hi Christie

I have no reason to think that A2003 would behave any differently than
A2000.

If it's any help, my experience is with an nVidia dual-head.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.

Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

Allen,

Thanks. I have tried multiple video cards (3 different types) on two
different computers so I'm not sure it could be the card driver unless all
three of them were bad???

I'm no computer expert but would reloading Access and possibly Office help
solve this?

I'm using Access 2000. Do you think Access 2003 would work better. I
haven't
purchased it yet but I might if it solves this one.

Thanks,
Christie

Hi Christie.

This sounds like a problem with the driver for your video card. I
constantly
use dual monitors to edit Access 2000, and 2003 (and occasionally 2002),
with Word open as well (when writing documentation), and sometimes with
multple copies of Access open (when importing data.)

I have no crashes that I attribute to the monitor setup, and I have
actually
flipped one of the monitors on its side, so the code window shows an
entire
page of code at one time. Been doing this for years now. It looks like
this:
http://allenbrowne.com/temp/0417_Monitors.jpg

I am using MS Access 2000. I have used different variations of computers
and

[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]

Any help is appreciated.
Christie