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dual monitor/screen problem with MCe?? Herman 03-29-2006
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Posted by Herman on March 29, 2006, 5:47 am
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I just bought a MCE and i try to connect two screens (monitor and TV) to the
MCE. I did the (working) settings in XP, the 2 monitors work fine under XP,
no problem at all ! So far, so good...

Then starting MCe... I get black screens with flikkering mouse. If i type
control-alt- del then, bysides the Taskmanager, the MCe-screen is coming up.
I can use the Taskmanager, no problem and MCe stays on the background.
If i then try to acces MCe: black screens with the flikkering mouse arrow.
I have to stop MCe by the Taskmanager to go back, without (screen)problems
(!) in XP.

Configuration:
ASUS A8N-SLI NFORCE4, AMD Atlon 64FX
1024 MB DDRAM
ATI RADEON X300 128MB
Hauppage PVR500
250 Gb Maxtor

Is there any solution? I installed already the most recent drivers etc. I
red that there is aan dual monitor problem with MCe but didn't see my
particular problem.
Many thanks for your help!
Herman

Posted by Gary Tsang on March 29, 2006, 5:57 am
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Did you install the AMD cpu driver?

The update is available here
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/amdcpu.exe

--
Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


>I just bought a MCE and i try to connect two screens (monitor and TV) to
>the
> MCE. I did the (working) settings in XP, the 2 monitors work fine under
> XP,
> no problem at all ! So far, so good...
>
> Then starting MCe... I get black screens with flikkering mouse. If i type
> control-alt- del then, bysides the Taskmanager, the MCe-screen is coming
> up.
> I can use the Taskmanager, no problem and MCe stays on the background.
> If i then try to acces MCe: black screens with the flikkering mouse arrow.
> I have to stop MCe by the Taskmanager to go back, without (screen)problems
> (!) in XP.
>
> Configuration:
> ASUS A8N-SLI NFORCE4, AMD Atlon 64FX
> 1024 MB DDRAM
> ATI RADEON X300 128MB
> Hauppage PVR500
> 250 Gb Maxtor
>
> Is there any solution? I installed already the most recent drivers etc. I
> red that there is aan dual monitor problem with MCe but didn't see my
> particular problem.
> Many thanks for your help!
> Herman



Posted by Herman on March 30, 2006, 10:18 am
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NOTE: For attaching the TV to the MCe i use the composite video input from
the TV because the (Panasonic) TV has no VGA of S-video.
Also: the composite video TV-input is attached to the S-video-output via a
converterplug on the Mce.
Might this cause the problem under Mce while XP dual monitor is running
fine??

"Herman" wrote:

> I just bought a MCE and i try to connect two screens (monitor and TV) to the
> MCE. I did the (working) settings in XP, the 2 monitors work fine under XP,
> no problem at all ! So far, so good...
>
> Then starting MCe... I get black screens with flikkering mouse. If i type
> control-alt- del then, bysides the Taskmanager, the MCe-screen is coming up.
> I can use the Taskmanager, no problem and MCe stays on the background.
> If i then try to acces MCe: black screens with the flikkering mouse arrow.
> I have to stop MCe by the Taskmanager to go back, without (screen)problems
> (!) in XP.
>
> Configuration:
> ASUS A8N-SLI NFORCE4, AMD Atlon 64FX
> 1024 MB DDRAM
> ATI RADEON X300 128MB
> Hauppage PVR500
> 250 Gb Maxtor
>
> Is there any solution? I installed already the most recent drivers etc. I
> red that there is aan dual monitor problem with MCe but didn't see my
> particular problem.
> Many thanks for your help!
> Herman

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