Vista Application Failures after Installing 1920x1200 Monitor

[Roger]

I endured the Black Friday crowds and snagged a new Samsung 245BW for...
myself! This is a great monitor... except... several free applications
that came with Windows Vista Home Premium have stopped working.

The Windows Photo Gallery displays the bar at the top and the bar at the
bottom and nothing in between. The spinning wheel keeps spinning until
I force the application to close.

Chess Titans displays the initial screen and gets stuck dsplaying the
message Loading Chess Titans. Ditto on the spinning wheel and having to
force the application to close.

FreeCell doesn't even get an initial screen up. I once had a fuzzy mess
of gray patterns. There is an button on the task bar that I had to
click several times to force a close.

I haven't bothered to try other games.

Has anyone experienced similar symptoms with big monitors? Have a fix?

Roger

 

[Chuck]

Nine out of ten times, this kind of problem is related to the video card,
driver, and settings.
Without further information concerning your system, I cannot recommend any
specific action, other than to suggest that you recheck the settings for
refresh rate and color resolution.

 

[Roger]

The video card is an Nvidia Quadro NVS 210S integrated on an ECS
motherboard. Color is 32 bit, refresh rate 60.

Except for the 3 programs mentioned, the Samsung 245BW monitor is
fantastic. I have run IE 7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, MS Word, Excel,
Access, Lotus 123, Open Office Calc, Apple Quicktime, Thunderbird,
Notetab Lite, SciTE, HeidiSQL, IrfanView, ImageJ, etc. etc. without
problem.

The monitor replaces a Samsung 203B that was running at 1400x1050.
After running into problems with Windows Photo Gallery I tried loading
the driver from the installation CD-ROM. It was the same date as the
driver Vista had downloaded -- no change to symptoms.

Roger

 

[Roger]

I forgot to mention I am using the digitial interface, same as on the
old 203B.

Roger

 

[Frank]

The video card is an Nvidia Quadro NVS 210S integrated on an ECS
motherboard. Color is 32 bit, refresh rate 60.

Except for the 3 programs mentioned, the Samsung 245BW monitor is
fantastic. I have run IE 7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, MS Word, Excel,
Access, Lotus 123, Open Office Calc, Apple Quicktime, Thunderbird,
Notetab Lite, SciTE, HeidiSQL, IrfanView, ImageJ, etc. etc. without
problem.

The monitor replaces a Samsung 203B that was running at 1400x1050. After
running into problems with Windows Photo Gallery I tried loading the
driver from the installation CD-ROM. It was the same date as the driver
Vista had downloaded -- no change to symptoms.

Roger

All three function and display perfectly on my new ViewSonic VX2835wm
28" monitor @ 1920x1200, 32bit, 60 Hertz. Although I have an ATI Radeon
HD2600XT, 512 RAM vc driving the monitor. I'm running Vista Ultimate x86
on this box.

First thing I'd do is check ECS web site for updated bios/mobo drivers
for everything ECS on the mobo. Then I'd make sure I've got the latest
Samsung monitor drivers and that they are in fact installed. If none of
that works I'd then go buy a real video card cause for sure that's the
real answer to the display problems you are having.
Frank

 

[Roger]

All three function and display perfectly on my new ViewSonic VX2835wm
28" monitor @ 1920x1200, 32bit, 60 Hertz. Although I have an ATI Radeon
HD2600XT, 512 RAM vc driving the monitor. I'm running Vista Ultimate x86
on this box.

First thing I'd do is check ECS web site for updated bios/mobo drivers
for everything ECS on the mobo. Then I'd make sure I've got the latest
Samsung monitor drivers and that they are in fact installed. If none of
that works I'd then go buy a real video card cause for sure that's the
real answer to the display problems you are having.
Frank

I tried some more Vista distributed games, they all fail as well. If I
knock the resolution down to 1200x1024 AND the color down to 16 bit the
games work.

I am not a video gamer, so thus far I haven't needed a real video card.
Very curious -- of all the applications I run, the Microsoft Freecell
game is so much more resource intensive that it requires a real video
card.

Roger

 

[Roger]

I tried some more Vista distributed games, they all fail as well. If I
knock the resolution down to 1200x1024 AND the color down to 16 bit the
games work.

I am not a video gamer, so thus far I haven't needed a real video card.
Very curious -- of all the applications I run, the Microsoft Freecell
game is so much more resource intensive that it requires a real video card.

Roger

Another thought -- I have the 64-bit version of Vista. Perhaps these
oldish games have a problem with large monitors when run on a 64-bit OS.

Roger

 

[Frank]

Another thought -- I have the 64-bit version of Vista. Perhaps these
oldish games have a problem with large monitors when run on a 64-bit OS.

Roger

Do yourself a favor and get a video card.
Frank

 

[Roger]

Do yourself a favor and get a video card.
Frank

I installed an EVGA e-GeForce 6200LE and it did fix the problem. Thanks
for your help.

Roger

 

[Frank]

I installed an EVGA e-GeForce 6200LE and it did fix the problem. Thanks
for your help.

Roger

Glad to hear that solved your problem.
Frank