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Answer» SMOKING GUN! No...it's most likely just the software... No luck. I uninstalled drivers and disabled MS Essentials as recommended by nvidia and did a clean install of current driver. Still have the same problem with desktop display changing when I click on Details tab of nvidia driver Properties. I have been assuming that the display changing when the Details tab is clicked is caused by the same thing that is causing desktop display to change when the PC is not being used. Maybe that is a bad assumption. At this point I am going to live with it until/unless it gets worse. It is not that big of a deal to restart 2 or 3 times per week...I just do not like the idea of something not being right. Thanks for your help. Holler if anything else comes to mind about the cause of this.Dont clik the Details tab in nVidia anymore... Problem solved. It's only a preview anyways. Quote from: patio on April 12, 2014, 09:45:49 AM Dont clik the Details tab in nVidia anymore... Right, but that is not the problem that was bugging me. It is only something I discovered when I was trying to solve the real problem. My guess is sometime within the next 24-36 hours I will wake up my PC and the desktop will be messed up.Someone else MAY have an idea Art... I have 2 PC's here and 1 at my Office all with nVidia cards and i haven't been able to duplicate your results...Quote from: patio on April 12, 2014, 10:12:24 AM Someone else may have an idea Art... Thanks Patio. I was thinking about upgrading my video card anyway so I can get a HDMI input to my new monitor. Assuming there is at least a possibility my video card is causing the problem, it may be a good time to upgrade. My PC is over 7 years old but I just installed Win 7 OEM and I would like to get at least another year or two out of it. What is the best way to determine the right video card? Should I start a new thread in the hardware sub-forum?That would be a good start...yes. Post the MODEL # of the PC...or if homebuilt post at least the MBoard manuf. name and Model # Best of Luck.I just came across this post on another forum. Would this method help me determine what errors are causing spontaneous changes in my desktop display settings? This person had a problem with slow/crashing Live Mail. I also have this problem with Live Mail. Also, sometimes Live Mail screen breaks down into horizontal colored lines. I wonder if my Live Mail and desktop display issues are related and caused by a failing integrated gpu? ********************************** There are several ways to find what the problem is. The best is to go into event viewer (type eventvwr in search). Event viewer (local) and look for errors listed in the last day, week, etc. Then go to the windows log>application tab. Finally the windows LOGS>system tabs. You want to look for all errors (they have red in the left column ). When you find them you want to look for errors that say app hang, app crash, or anything that relates to WLM When you find them please note the event ID, and the source codes and tell us what they are. ***************************************Hopefully this is not a premature post, but it looks like my new video card solved my problems. Looks like either my on-board graphics was going bad or there was some conflict between on-board graphics and Win 7. Not sure about the latter because the Win 7 upgrade wizard said it should work fine. The quality of my monitor picture is not noticeably better with DVI vs on-board VGA, but I see a major improvement in how fast screens load, especially Yahoo and Yahoo news stories and Live Mail. I thought the slow Yahoo page loads was due to INADEQUATE RAM, but maybe not. I will be increasing RAM from 1 to 3GB. Will be interesting to see if it provides any noticeable improvement. |
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