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#ConsoleMasterRace
I have no good response besides... worth it :thppt: :finger:
I wonder if that was an update - I had a similar experience on my laptop last night. It did an update at some point during the day, and when I turned it on in the evening I had a low-res desktop and no video card driver at all - not even a "displays" entry in device mangler. I shut down, waited a minute, rebooted, and same thing. Opened up device mangler, did a "scan for hardware" and everything went right back to normal.
That's exactly it. Except my desktop seemed to have black-screening issues along with it. Sounds like the same root cause, with some different branching issues for me.
It was strange, because even though the GPU was "disabled", it was still pushing a picture through the display port connection (some of the time). At a more-blurry-than-expected 800x600 res.
Does this mean that 2017's version of 'buy a Mac' is now something like 'buy an Xbox'?Quote:
Originally Posted by novicius
That is odd.
The other issue I had with my 750Ti at work (before I moved my 960 over) was that from the middle of last year onward, updating the NVIDIA drivers would mean that Windows wouldn't boot. I finally found out that the problem was the dual-monitor setup. So you would have to unplug one monitor in order to update the drivers, then plug it in again after they'd been updated. Not a major issue save for the 3-4 hours wasted over the 2 times I tried to update the drivers and ended up having to restore from a Save Point.
I only found this solution because the old drivers started to act up very badly (Explorer and a few other things kept crashing randomly) and, of course, checked online. Then most of the problems went away. So far with the 960 - which I had to swap in in order to get Displayport out for my new Dell 43" monitor - everything's been relatively smooth.
turned it off, issue remainsQuote:
Originally Posted by thesameguy
started noticing that when booting the secondary screens turns on a few seconds before the main screen that and the length of darkness seems to vary between 1-2 seconds and 3-4 seconds
That is not unusual - one will pretty much always initialize before the other. Out of curiosity, how old are the monitors?
5+ years
0 issues when either are connected via VGA
debating whether I want one big screen or to keep them separate (don't need any one window to go 2000+ pixels wide)
I am wondering if you are having an HDMI sync issue. I have had issues with older HDMI gear, especially when connecting to newer HDMI sources. As a rule, I never used to connect monitors with HDMI due to unpredictable results. A couple years ago, maybe with HDMI 2, things got better and I began using it.. but old HDMI stuff was really iffy in PC-land. The fact it works properly when connected to VGA seems to suggest you're having a similar issue.