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Setting my screen resolution only affects desktop size

I have an LCD with native resolution 1920x1080. It works fine (tested with other computers). I have a computer with an MSI FX5200 (MS-8911) display adapter (i.e. nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 NV34). When I ...
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Corrupted/Missing NVIDIA nForce 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Network Adaptor

Yesterday, when I went into Network Connections in Control Panel and enabled the Ethernet feature (to use an Ethernet-based router), it disappeared from the Network Connection window. When I now look ...
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“MultiViewer” with Windows XP

We need to arrange three Windows applications among themselves on ONE single screen which is positioned in portrait mode. We are using nVidia's Grids to create the three grids and to rotate the screen ...
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Nvidia Geforce 7600GS issues [closed]

I have a Nvidia Geforce 7600GS. I got an nvlddmk.sys BSOD, so decided to do another instalation of Windows 7. No success, I got the same BSOD again, I also noticed that the screen in bios in covered ...
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Nvidia GeForce 410m

I have a Lenovo v570 with a Nvidia GeForce 410m with cuda. It came with windows 7 and everything works well. However I just got bored of windows 7 and I'm yearning for xp. I installed xp and got ...
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Combining two NVIDIA video cards to drive three monitors in cloned mode

Subject: Combining two NVIDIA video cards to drive three monitors in cloned mode (each 1080p monitor is in a separate room). NVIDIA universal driver version 301.42, EVGA X58 Motherboard (two PCI-E ...
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Unmountable boot volume blue screen, what should I do?

I was trying to install an update from NVIDIA for my GTX 560, but while it was installing, my computer shut off. After a few minutes, I turned it back on. It got to the Windows boot screen and then ...
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Corrupt display - possibly related to DirectX

I've a Nvidia GT 240 plugged into a Asus M2N68-AMSE2 on XP Pro SP2 driving a 22" LCD display at 1080/32bpp/60Hz. Till Sunday, everything was working fine with no hint of a problem. On Monday morning, ...
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Nvidia - 2 cards, 4 monitors

System is Windows XP Professional 32 bit and I have 2x Leadtek GTX550 Ti graphics cards to replace broken parts and I need to urgently setup a 4 monitor layout (2x2) for critical mission management ...
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Brightness settings gone, how do I bring it back?

I have a VAIO CW laptop with Windows 7 x64, and after installing new NVIDIA drivers, my screen brightness controls are no longer available. (Not in the control center, not in the power options, ...
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Free media player with VDPAU (nVidia acceleared codecs) for Windows XP

On Linux, with the latest official binary video driver from nVidia, I can use mplayer -vo vdpau (and some other flags) to offload the video decoding to the nVidia GPU. Is there a free media player for ...
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nvmctray.dll and then daemonu.exe trying to access Internet on startup?

When I start-up my PC, Comodo Firewall 5.4.189822.1355 shows an alert that this is trying to access the Internet: Application: nvmctray.dll Remote: 127.0.0.1 - TCP Port: 2559 Shortly, afterwards, ...
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How to disable the screen orientation hotkeys in Windows XP?

I'm using Eclipse in Windows XP. One of my favorite shortcuts is CTRL-ALT-DOWN (or CTRL-ALT-UP) to duplicate a line. I just found that on this machine (XP ThinkPad, with NVIDIA graphics driver), ...
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Multiple monitors - how to control location of dialog boxes

I work on a four monitor system with two dual output Nvidia graphics cards. Assorted software occasionally pops up dialog boxes with questions or messages. I would like it if the dialog boxes always ...
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DisplayPort to DVI not working on Quadro FX 580

I have a PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 graphics card with 1x DVI and 2x DisplayPorts. The DVI port works fine with both my Viewsonic monitors but I cannot get either of the DPs to work using the supplied ...
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More than 2 monitors in a PC with external graphics card

Windows XP: I have an on-board graphics card that has 2 outputs (VGA and HDMI) (Intel motherboard). In addition I have an external graphics card with VGA and DVI (nVidia). Can I use 3 or 4 of them at ...
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EVGA Nvidia GT 240 intermittently stops working

My EVGA Nvidia GT 240 video card stops working on both windows-7 and windows xp. When it stops, the screen is disturbed and computer halts. Additionally, a continuous sound comes from speaker. It ...
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After windows update explorer now opens C:\Program Files\NVIDIA folder on startup?

Since i did a windows update which installed a NVidia driver update, windows explorer now opens the C:\Program Files\NVIDIA folder every time I start windows. I've had a look round the usual Run ...
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Nvidia driver for Dell XPS M1330 in XP

I need to run XP, and cannot find a driver that works for this laptop in windows xp. I have tried quite a few of them, from my google searches, but none work, they all come up and say no proper ...
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Where can I download NVIDIA drivers for mobile GPUs from?

I have an HP DM3T with NVIDIA GeForce G105m and I am trying to install Windows XP on the notebook. Since HP doesn't offer drivers for Windows XP I am forced to look for drivers on the manufacturer ...
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iMac nVidia drivers on Bootcamp/Windows XP (9400M)

I run Windows XP on occasion on my iMac early 2009 (20"). Lately I have been thinking of trying to update my nVidia drivers as it has been hinted that it could solve some of the problems I've been ...
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Monitor position moves when I reboot; any way to fix that, or dynamically set it?

I've got Windows XP running with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT (with two monitors) and a DisplayLink adapter for a total of three monitors. During each reboot the third (DisplayLink) monitor changes its ...
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Boot sequence unlike reboot

When I turn on the computer it acts very differently than when I reboot it. [WinXP Pro, Intel Core2 6600, 2.4GHZ, 2GB RAM, NVIDA GeForce] Boot: Monitor must be plugged into the motherboard or no ...
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nVidia Driver - Laptop is forced as one of my monitors

I am trying to get my nVidia Driver to correctly configure my multi-monitor setup. I have my laptop in a docking station and two monitors hooked up to it. I had an old driver that this worked ...
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nVidia Driver - Laptop Lid closed in docking station, but Laptop monitor used

I updated my nVidia drivers for my laptop and now when I put it in my docking station it is trying to use the laptop monitor as one of my two monitors (instead of my two actual monitors). So it ...