andrewe1 Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 Hello, Im on a g50vt-x1 laptop with a 9800gs. I was unhappy with the stock 179.14 drivers and had some performance problems, so I upgraded to the official laptop driver release from nvidia and performance has been great, however... im running an external 22 inch monitor as a primary, and my task bar on the laptop screen. With EVERY reboot the primary and task bar go back to laptop and the res gets lowered from 1680x1050 to 1280x1024. Its very odd, as soon as the welcome screen from vista goes away, I can see the desktops just fine, then it flickers a bunch of times and it resets everything :) Please help, I need to solve this...its really annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 Such problems haven't plagued me in a long time, I'm using an 22" external all the time. Did you use Driver Sweeper after you uninstalled the original driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewe1 Posted December 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 yeah, I noticed something curious though, if I disable the nvidia service from the services tab on msconfig and restart, the res and other monitor settings will stay like they are :) Its very odd....is that service really needed? doesnt seem to affect anything else. If I enable it everything starts crapping out again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewe1 Posted December 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 well i updated to the latest driver release and the problem is gone... I reverted back to the official nvidia release just to be sure and it started messing up again... Looks like im staying on the 180 release, hope they do well on gaming... Thanks anyways Merry Christmas all btw! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted December 25, 2008 Report Share Posted December 25, 2008 It's the nvidia service. As far as we can tell, it's main function is to save your settings and restore them on the next boot. Assuming you hadn't disabled it, something else must have messed it up. Glad it's working! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted December 26, 2008 Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 Try 179.28 - it works fine for me on external single monitor - be it 22" monitor (1680x1050) or HDTV via HDMI (1080i). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewe1 Posted December 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2008 (edited) thanks for your reply, 181.00 are working fine with external and hdmi! audio included! Edited December 26, 2008 by andrewe1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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