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Chris Riffey 2002-09-26 06:05
Hi there, I am new to the multi-mon scene so forgive me if any of this is old material.
I have a machine running winXP and I have 3 vid cards, an AGP ATI RAGE 128(primary), and 2 Visiontek geforce4 MX420 PCI cards. All are displaying on different 19 inch montiors. My system began with just the ATI and then I added the 2 geforce cards one by one. They both came up fine in the display properties settings and were shown as monitors 2 and 3. I also got a 4 and 5 which say they are the same geforce4 cards on "default monitor". I thought I read something one one of these forums about that being normal for nvidia cards so I just disabled them and all was well.
So after installing ultramon 2.0 RC2 everything was working fine, including smart taskbar. Well at some point I had to start up the machine without having one of the monitors plugged in. Everything adjusted just fine for the 2 while it was on. I then shut down and plugged the third monitor back in and when it came up I couldn't see anything on it, I couldn't figure out why until I looked and saw that winXP thought that the monitor was now plugged into this previously unsubstantial "5" monitor that I had disabled. I reenabled it and could see things on it. However it was missing the smart taskbar.
I figured the problem might have been that the OS got confused as to which display adapter was the real one and thus, confused Ultramon. I tried removing the drivers from the device manager and then letting XP find them again but that made things worse. Now XP thinks I am using 1, 3, and 4 and ultramon thinks I am using 1, 2, and 5. At this point I can not see the taskbar on one of the monitors and the wallpaper and screensaver features of ultramon really don't love things and don't display right becase they think they are outputting to monitors that don't exist or are disabled as far as XP is concerned. How can I get everything back in sync? I took a screenshot that might help you understand what I am talking about. http://www-isd.usc.edu/~criffey/multimess.jpg
I apologize if this is something that was not meant for the forum.
Chris Riffey
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Christian Studer 2002-09-26 08:21
Before making any changes to the Smart Taskbar configuration, you should tell UltraMon to ignore the 2 ghost monitors in Options > Ignored Monitors. After doing this, UltraMon will only list 3 monitors, numbered 1-3.
If you get into the same situation again, you might have to adjust the Ignored Monitors setting, but after doing this the Smart Taskbar should work just fine, it still sees only monitors 1-3.
To reconfigure the Smart Taskbar, right-click one of the taskbars, then adjust the 'Show Tasks from' setting. To add a new taskbar, select 'Add Taskbar for' from the menu.
You can also let UltraMon create a new default configuration for the Smart Taskbar. To do this, close the Smart Taskbar, open regedit.exe and delete the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\Smart Taskbar\Taskbars'.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Chris Riffey 2002-09-27 03:31
Thanks Christian! This program is great and worth every cent to register! I am relatively new to my current consulting job where my multi-mon setup exists and I am amazed at how many of my coworkers ooh and ahh my setup and the things I can do with ultramon. Everyone here has at least several computers in there office and several monitors but for some reason no one here ever felt like making a larger workspace for themselves even though they have all the resources to.
BTW: Does anyone know why you get these ghost monitors when installing nvidia cards? I SWEAR I read it somewhere here but I can't find it now. Is it just something you have to live with? Could it be because both these cards have S-Video out and these "ghost" monitors are placeholders for the outputs that would go to TVs plugged into those ports?
Chris Riffey
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