| Dec 11, 2007 @ 8:03 PM |
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Kenn159
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I have my settings under control panel/Display for my dual monitor video card set to 85 hertz for both monitors,but the secondary monitor[the one on the right] is only at 60 hertz.
Why wont it change to the settings under control panel/display?
I have notice that the monitor that wont refresh to the higher refresh rate set by the computer ,the model is not listed, just listed as VGA monitor.
I tried searchijg the net for the driver for a digital Research DRMON21 driver but can't find one.
I know this monitor has the ability to do 85 hertz, becuase it worked fine with another computer.
Any thoughts?
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| Dec 11, 2007 @ 10:07 PM |
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_CQ_
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I have not used dual monitors, but perhaps I can offer some assistance.
The refresh rate setting in Display Properties is a factor of the video adapter, not the monitor. That is why it is possible to select a custom refresh rate that can damage a monitor that does not support it, and Windows will display a warning in such a case.
Assuming your dual monitor video adapter card is properly installed, are there separate refresh rates for each monitor that can be set individually? Does your video card have something like "extended mode" as an option to select?
If all is set up correctly, each monitor should have its own settings available.
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| Dec 12, 2007 @ 7:20 AM |
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sealacamp
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If the issue is your video card I would suggest the G-Force dual monitor card, can't remember the exact designation. Two of these cards can be jumped to operate together and the settings for one equate to the other one as well.
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| Dec 12, 2007 @ 6:52 PM |
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_CQ_
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Kenn159,
I was able to recreate the problem you have on my computer. You are on the right track. Indeed, you do require the drivers for your Digital Research monitor to enable access to the refresh rates provided by your video card.
I see that searching for your exact driver and finding it is akin to resisting assimilation by the Borg.
An email to http://www.dr-tech.com/ with a request for the drivers may be of help.
A possible workaround might be to, in Display Properties where you change monitors, select super VGA in the list of standard monitor types with a resolution and refresh rate close to what you want.
Or, if there are Digital Research monitors in your list, choose one that is close, like DRMON19 and see how that works.
You may find a driver for a different brand of monitor could also work. Right now, I changed the drivers for my Sony CPD-100SF to a Siemens Nixdorf MCM1503 and I can still get 85Hz as well as the resolutions and color depths I had with the Sony drivers. Other alternative monitors just allowed default and optimal rates.
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| Dec 13, 2007 @ 10:24 PM |
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Kenn159
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Thanks for the input everyone.
I figured out how to fix it.
Although windows automatically found me a driver for my Radeon 9500 pro card during the install of win XP sp-2 and installed it correctly under control panel/ display.
The problem was when I set the refresh rate for each of the monitors under display, one of the monitors would respond and the other[listed as standard VGA] did not.
Very often people say "get the latest driver and it will fix it" and often that doesn't work, but in my case it wasn't the latest driver but a larger driver/and control application called ATI catalist, consisting of 43 megs that I downloaded from drivers guide.com , this application made both monitors work, and i never had to find the driver for the DRMON21 and just left it as generic standard VGA.
Thanks for your input.
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| Dec 13, 2007 @ 10:26 PM |
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Kenn159
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Oh by the way, I set both monitors at 100 hertz refresh rate to reduce eye strain,give a dual monitor a try,once you have used it, you wont want to go back.
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| Dec 14, 2007 @ 6:38 AM |
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sealacamp
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I would love to but neither of my desks are that big.
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| Dec 14, 2007 @ 9:07 PM |
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Kenn159
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I think we could all stand to gain by knowing more about our computers, I'm not sure why this section is so dead.
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| Dec 15, 2007 @ 4:08 AM |
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sealacamp
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Because like many things in life most people just want to use they don't want to understand. That is a mystery to me as well.
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| Dec 15, 2007 @ 9:40 PM |
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waterfire
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To te3ll the truth I really don't like dual monitors 
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| Dec 19, 2007 @ 12:39 PM |
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Kenn159
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To te3ll the truth I really don't like dual monitors
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I guess the reason I like it is I do a lot of instrument/audio recording and there is too much video space realestate required in those recording programs to get it all on one monitor.
If you want to access a larger portion of controls in realtime instead of using sub folders like on a single monitor set up ,the double monitor seems to have the advantage in increasing realtime accesss to controls,because you can place them all infront of you.
I also like it for surfing as well,since i like to multitask and have a dinosaur dial up connection ,I can be reading one page while waiting for the other to load.
The second screen is also great for things like copying from one screen and pasting to a application on the other, or gathering files on one screen to be burnt to cd on the other.
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| Dec 19, 2007 @ 10:30 PM |
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chatillion
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waterfire said:
To te3ll the truth I really don't like dual monitors
Dual monitors? I absolutely love it.
2 - 22" flat screens with an NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 video card.
Both monitors support 1680 x 1050 resolution but,
the 2nd video only goes to 1280 x 960.
I suspect it's the limitation of the memory (128mb) in the video card.
Ken, both monitors here are set to 60 hertz refresh rate.
I don't have any other options.
Did you already say what kind/type of monitors you are using?
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| Dec 20, 2007 @ 11:16 AM |
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Kenn159
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suspect it's the limitation of the memory (128mb) in the video card.
Its not the limit of the video card.
I currently have three computer systems, one at one house and two at another house and they are all dual monitor and can run up to 100 hertz on lessor quality cards than yours.
The card on the machine that I am typing from right now is a Nividia ge Force 6600 LE 128 meg, but you dont need that new or high end a card to do this,my other two computers have older cards with lower memory.
I've never owned a LCD but my friend had one,and he said he tried to increase it but he was locked at 60 hertz as well.
I think it must be a limit of the monitor,have you tried unchecking "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display"?
Also make sure your card has the full latest driver with a video control panel, instead of the smaller more compact driver that wondows automatically installs.
I have heard that 60 hertz in a LCD is less harsh and eye strain inducing than on one of my CRTs because of the way a LCD functions.
So the lower hertz rate maybe no biggie since your using LCD's
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