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 Sep 20 2006, 03:56 PM
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 'r Brudiwr  Group: HJT Team Posts: 2,486 Joined: 10-April 05 From: South Wales, Great Britain Member No.: 16,608  |
had a new graphics card fitted today, so that i can run 2 monitors.( one from the vga and the other from the dvi output) When i got the pc back, my anti virus wouldn't turn on ..... but the firewall did. The only way i could get the anti-virus to work was to reinstall it! I had lost my 'desktop pic' so went looking for it.......... can't find it anywhere, and when i click on properties..... desktop.. i find all my pics from my picture folder..... none of my wallpapers????? Anyone else ever had this happen to them? -------------------- W2k/WinXp/Vista. Celeron® 2.66Ghz, 1.5Gb Ram, 80 + 160 Gb HD's. GeForce Fx5500 256mb G Card, 2x17"monitors.
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Sep 20 2006, 04:01 PM
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Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 5,898 Joined: 10-March 05 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 14,085 |
Is your power supply sufficient for this?
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Sep 20 2006, 04:09 PM
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'r Brudiwr Group: HJT Team Posts: 2,486 Joined: 10-April 05 From: South Wales, Great Britain Member No.: 16,608 |
They checked it out at the shop and said it wouldn't be a problem.
I've reset everything (after a lot of hassle) and evrything seems to be working ok now This post has been edited by Starbuck: Sep 20 2006, 04:11 PM -------------------- W2k/WinXp/Vista. Celeron® 2.66Ghz, 1.5Gb Ram, 80 + 160 Gb HD's. GeForce Fx5500 256mb G Card, 2x17"monitors.
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Sep 20 2006, 07:09 PM
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Forum Addict Group: Members Posts: 5,898 Joined: 10-March 05 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 14,085 |
Glad its working.
I don't understand the conflict with the AV ap though. |
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Sep 21 2006, 09:50 AM
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 Still visually handicapped, new avatar :0) Group: Moderator Posts: 14,707 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824 |
Did you install any special drivers for the video setup? I'm just guessing here, but it could be that the programs were affected because they didn't interface with the card setup correctly (they weren't able to autodetect the change between 1 and 2 graphics cards) and weren't able to display.
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Sep 21 2006, 11:59 AM
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'r Brudiwr Group: HJT Team Posts: 2,486 Joined: 10-April 05 From: South Wales, Great Britain Member No.: 16,608 |
When back to the shop and explained to them this morning.The problem i had was an 'over zealous' computer tech
 He had noticed a lot of programs starting on boot up..... so he disabled them all to speed up the reboots while working on the pc. He forgot to tell me what he'd done!!!! By the way... the integrated graphics card has been uninstalled, i'm using the vga output and the dvi output from the new card to run the 2 monitors. Everything is working fine now, thanks for everyones interest and help. This post has been edited by Starbuck: Sep 21 2006, 12:01 PM -------------------- W2k/WinXp/Vista. Celeron® 2.66Ghz, 1.5Gb Ram, 80 + 160 Gb HD's. GeForce Fx5500 256mb G Card, 2x17"monitors.
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