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jbruce911 · May 5, 2004, 09:49 AM

I hooked my computer up to an older monitor and the display is messed up. It overlaps 4 repeats of the display on the screen. If I uninstall the video card driver and use the windows default it works.

I have a 800MHz Windows 98
NVidia TNT Card

Have tried it with 2 different older monitors with the same results. Please help!!

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

psi42 · May 5, 2004, 04:28 PM

I hooked my computer up to an older monitor and the display is messed up. It overlaps 4 repeats of the display on the screen. If I uninstall the video card driver and use the windows default it works.

I have a 800MHz Windows 98
NVidia TNT Card

Have tried it with 2 different older monitors with the same results. Please help!!

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

Hmm...

One of two things are happening:

Either your computer is trying to run the monitor at a higher resolution than supported

Or it is trying to use a higher monitor refresh rate than the monitor likes

Try this:

1) Hook up the problematic monitor (with the nvidia drivers installed)
2) Boot into safe mode (press F8 at the "starting windows" message)
3) Lower the resolution and color depth to the lowest possible setting
4) Reboot. If the display looks right, raise the resolution and color settings to something you can take.

If not...

Honestly, this is where I end up in a kind of rant. The only way (to my knowledge) to configure windows video settings is to boot fully into windows (or safe mode) and graphically change the configuration. In safe mode, sometimes, changes don't take proper effect because windows doesn't reapply them to the "unsafe" mode driver settings.

You need to boot into safe mode and lower the monitor refresh rate to what your monitor can handle. These settings should be near where you change the color depth (it's been a while). Good luck. Check your monitor manual for the specific numbers you need.

:)

~psi42