VS2005 and Dual Monitors

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JJ - 14 Oct 2006 02:12 GMT

I don't know how anyone can do development in VS2005 without dual
monitors. But, every now again (at least once a day) I lose all the
windows on my 2nd monitor. Nothing will bring them back, short of
restarting VS2005. I generally keep my Data Sources, Solution
Explorer and Properties windows on the 2nd screen. Any thoughts on
how to prevent this would be greatly appreciated.

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Chris Doré - 16 Oct 2006 13:52 GMT

I've experienced the same behaviour. In my case some combination of
minimizing VS, switching windows, and going back to VS usually fixes things.
Could be a completely different problem, but give it a try.

Chris

>I don't know how anyone can do development in VS2005 without dual
> monitors. But, every now again (at least once a day) I lose all the
> windows on my 2nd monitor. Nothing will bring them back, short of
> restarting VS2005. I generally keep my Data Sources, Solution
> Explorer and Properties windows on the 2nd screen. Any thoughts on
> how to prevent this would be greatly appreciated.

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Charlie Tame - 25 Oct 2006 08:38 GMT

I have two NVIDIA cards, an older GEForce in the AGP slot and a newer one in
the PCI slot. Using W2003 Server with dual boot to XP Pro.

I've found that I have to stick with older drivers, the newest driver
crashes completely but the previous version exhibits odd behavior with
VS2005. When building or running a program the screen would flash black This
was pretty annoying but otherwise appeared harmless.

As it happens I went back to an older XP driver last weekend and the problem
seems to have gone away so I am pretty sure it was the driver that made the
difference. The newer driver versions deal with the fact that there are two
cards better, but they sure don't seem to work better. FWIW the same applies
to the game Half Life, it hates the newer drivers despite suggesting the
driver update when it starts.

Anyway my problems seem to be driver related so I thought I'd throw that
into the arena as a suggestion in case it's any use to anybody.

Charlie

> I've experienced the same behaviour. In my case some combination of
> minimizing VS, switching windows, and going back to VS usually fixes
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>> Explorer and Properties windows on the 2nd screen. Any thoughts on
>> how to prevent this would be greatly appreciated.

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JJ - 27 Oct 2006 03:38 GMT

Thanks for the info Charlie. I guess it doesn't pay to upgrade to the
latest and greatest.

>I have two NVIDIA cards, an older GEForce in the AGP slot and a newer one in
>the PCI slot. Using W2003 Server with dual boot to XP Pro.
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>>> Explorer and Properties windows on the 2nd screen. Any thoughts on
>>> how to prevent this would be greatly appreciated.

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Joe - 27 Oct 2006 17:29 GMT

My dual display's are working fine at my work. I'm using a Dell Precision
380

Below is copy paste of system information on Display properties - looks like
I have NVIDIA card:

Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_009D&SUBSYS_032210DE&REV_A1\4&E8C9B80&0&0008
Adapter Type Quadro FX 4500, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)
Adapter RAM 512.00 MB (536,870,912 bytes)
Installed Drivers nvd3dum.dll,nvapi.dll
Driver Version 7.15.10.9677
INF File nv_lh.inf (nv_NV3x_DOEB section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1600 x 1200 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xFC000000-0xFEAFFFFF
Memory Address 0xE0000000-0xEFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xFD000000-0xFDFFFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000DC80-0x0000DCFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 16
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (7.15.10.9677, 4.22 MB
(4,422,624 bytes), 10/4/2006 12:16 AM)

> Thanks for the info Charlie. I guess it doesn't pay to upgrade to the
> latest and greatest.
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>>>> Explorer and Properties windows on the 2nd screen. Any thoughts on
>>>> how to prevent this would be greatly appreciated.

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