Bizarre things happenings with my Radeon X850?

Hey all,
I wonder whether you can shed some light on problems I am having with my Radeon X850:

If I plug my 22" monitor into the VGA socket on the graphics card, the monitor will display at 1280 x 1024. I can then change that resolution to the monitors native resolution 1680 x 1050. However when I power cycle my pc, the resolution resets to 1280 x 1024?

Also, if I try plugging my monitor into the DVI socket, I get no signal unless before hand I set the resolution to be 1680 x 1050. However once I do that I can get the DVI to work, but then again after power cycling my pc I get problems using the monitor!

I have tried multiple display drivers to no avail and so any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Leon

P.S I am thinking of wiping my windows installation and starting from scratch :)

Sounds very odd. Hopefully its not the card itself. Is it an ATI or Nvidia card?

All I can think of is that you try using 'Driver Cleaner Pro' to completely remove all traces of your display driver: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/U...essional.shtml

Once your driver is totally removed, try and see if the problem still occurs - set the resolution to 1680x1050 and restart your pc. Even with no display drivers it should keep your chosen resolution.

Let us know how it turns out.

Tim

Edit: just read the post title, its an ATI card... god I can be stupid sometimes!

Thanks Timmy, I couldn't remember what that program was called :)

I'll give that a go this evening and if it doesn't work, I'm going to completely wipe my machine and put a copy of Vista on.

ATI drivers have been having some problems with monitor detection recently - maybe try disabling some of the polling services that ATI starts up?

Kalniel, thanks for the advice. Do you happen to know whether that's just ATI drivers or whether the Omega drivers are affected as well?

No idea sorry. I'd be very surprised if omega drivers didn't just copy the same functions/services straight over, seeing as there's no real scope for performance gains in the way you detect having a monitor plugged in.

Worth going back a few versions then? (any idea which ones don't have this problem?)

edit: haha sorry posted in wrong bit! ...they said tabbed browsing was a good thing - not when you are looking at two forum pages and trying to reply to two different topics!

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Originally Posted by Timmy!!!

All I can think of is that you try using 'Driver Cleaner Pro' to completely remove all traces of your display driver: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/U...essional.shtml

Once your driver is totally removed, try and see if the problem still occurs - set the resolution to 1680x1050 and restart your pc. Even with no display drivers it should keep your chosen resolution.

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Just removed all drivers then ran drive cleaner pro to remove all traces of the drivers. Then:

- Rebooted and installed Omega drivers.
- Rebooted
- DVI monitor is now working, got VGA working by extending desktop
- Powered off machine
- Powered on machine
- DVI now stops working, VGA works

No idea why this keeps happening!

Any more ideas please?

The only thing I can think of is that your monitor's VGA input needs a driver to keep it at the desired resolution. If your monitor came with a cd, try updating the monitor driver in device manager with the cd.

If that doesn't work, try uninstalling the drivers and using driver cleaner pro in safe mode.

If you still have no luck, I'm sorry to say I have no idea, and a fresh install may be the only thing I can think of. (sometimes a couple of hours of reinstalling windows is far nicer than a few hours of tearing your hair out trying to figure something out)

Good luck

Tim

Thanks again Timmy for offering a solution. I will, as always, try it out and then report back :)