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Guest
I am having some difficulty with my monitor. When my
computer first starts, my monitor remains asleep until XP
reaches the "select user" page. This is mostly an
annoyance, since it operates normally after this, but I
am concerned becaue I cannot see system or BIOS
information when my computer restarts.
This began when I installed a Radeon 7500 PCI card in my
computer. At first I was unable to see anything but by
playing around I was able to arrange for the computer to
use monior number two as the primary monitor. Despite the
fact that XP provides checkboxes to select your primary
display, this was very difficult to do. The checkboxes
are grayed out most of the time and I do not know why.
There is also a third monitor shown in Display Properties
and a second monitor in my Hardware Profile. I am not
sure where this came from but as you can see, two of
these three monitors claim to be using my Optiquest V73.
The other seems to be attached to the video card that
came with the system. Despite my efforts to disable or
uninstall the default monitor, it continues to reappear
in my hardware profile. It will not go away.
Please advise me on what I can do to solve this problem.
Radeon has told me that I might need to disable my on-
board video card. Dell has told me that it is not
possible with this chipset. I am sure there is a solution
through Windows but I either cannot find it or do not
know how to use it.
computer first starts, my monitor remains asleep until XP
reaches the "select user" page. This is mostly an
annoyance, since it operates normally after this, but I
am concerned becaue I cannot see system or BIOS
information when my computer restarts.
This began when I installed a Radeon 7500 PCI card in my
computer. At first I was unable to see anything but by
playing around I was able to arrange for the computer to
use monior number two as the primary monitor. Despite the
fact that XP provides checkboxes to select your primary
display, this was very difficult to do. The checkboxes
are grayed out most of the time and I do not know why.
There is also a third monitor shown in Display Properties
and a second monitor in my Hardware Profile. I am not
sure where this came from but as you can see, two of
these three monitors claim to be using my Optiquest V73.
The other seems to be attached to the video card that
came with the system. Despite my efforts to disable or
uninstall the default monitor, it continues to reappear
in my hardware profile. It will not go away.
Please advise me on what I can do to solve this problem.
Radeon has told me that I might need to disable my on-
board video card. Dell has told me that it is not
possible with this chipset. I am sure there is a solution
through Windows but I either cannot find it or do not
know how to use it.