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Paul Furman
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      08-22-2008
Paul Furman wrote:
> Paul Furman wrote:
>> Paul Furman wrote:
>>> Below are a couple 'solutions' I found in this group to some of the
>>> problems like the flipping. The thing that's really killing me now
>>> though is not being able to run my 26" monitor at full resolution.

>>
>> Here's the best detailed discussion of the issues:
>> http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/22072.aspx
>> I'm going to try some reboots after turning off the Windows Aero scheme.
>>
>> I also tried turning off the task manager thing as the other links
>> suggested & a simple logoff didn't seem to help, well maybe it helped
>> the flipping thing. I got random flips at 8:08 AM then 8:26 AM, none
>> since (9:50 AM now).

>
> These two things (no aero,


Followup, I still had to turn off aero, even with ultramon or it gives a
BSD when putting the laptop to sleep and forgets the screen size.

> no task manager thingy) plus uninstall,
> disable, reinstall, reboot multiple times (be patient when it comes up
> black with just a mouse pointer) fixed most of the problems but not the
> native resolution issue.
>
> I installed ultramon 3.0 beta 2.1 for vista 32 and that easily detected
> the 1920x1200 resolution so I'm good to go:
> http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
> (also recommended in the link above)
> That's $40 when the trial expires.
>
> Looks like it has other nice features like controlling wallpapers for
> each monitor too.



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