Vista Business with dual screens

[Richard Thompson]

I`ve noticed a problem on a couple of my Vista machines when a secondary
monitor is attached. I am running Vista Business at my company on 3
different Lenovo notebooks and when I unlock my machine the screen seems to
blink a few times before settling down back to normal.

Initially I thought it was due to an inferior screen card but then noticed
the problem on a much higher spec notebook. I`ve tried the following:
- changed the resolution on both monitors to match,
- changed the refresh rate to match,
- disabled Aero,
- optimized for performance,
- remove any desktop backgrounds, etc
- updated my display driver to the latest driver revision

None of these changes have made any difference regarding my specific
problem.

An interesting note, my Dell notebook which has a lower spec than the
Lenovos works perfectly with both the standard out the box driver and the
latest Dell driver.

Any suggestions welcome,

Richard

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You can turn off the feature for User Access Control temporarily (in user
accounts) and you would see that go away. I recommend that you tolerate the
blink.
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"Richard Thompson" <richard@thompson.co.za> wrote in message
news:1F30199E-58E3-48B5-9992-67F83134F5F3@microsoft.com...
> I`ve noticed a problem on a couple of my Vista machines when a secondary
> monitor is attached. I am running Vista Business at my company on 3
> different Lenovo notebooks and when I unlock my machine the screen seems
> to blink a few times before settling down back to normal.
>
> Initially I thought it was due to an inferior screen card but then noticed
> the problem on a much higher spec notebook. I`ve tried the following:
> - changed the resolution on both monitors to match,
> - changed the refresh rate to match,
> - disabled Aero,
> - optimized for performance,
> - remove any desktop backgrounds, etc
> - updated my display driver to the latest driver revision
>
> None of these changes have made any difference regarding my specific
> problem.
>
> An interesting note, my Dell notebook which has a lower spec than the
> Lenovos works perfectly with both the standard out the box driver and the
> latest Dell driver.
>
> Any suggestions welcome,
>
> Richard

 

[Richard Thompson]

Hi Mark,

UAC is already disabled on my machine, still blinks!

Kind regards
Richard


"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> You can turn off the feature for User Access Control temporarily (in user
> accounts) and you would see that go away. I recommend that you tolerate
> the blink.
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> Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web
> interface.
> http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales/help/help_en-us.htm#RateAPostAsAnswer
> Mark L. Ferguson
> .
>
> "Richard Thompson" <richard@thompson.co.za> wrote in message
> news:1F30199E-58E3-48B5-9992-67F83134F5F3@microsoft.com...
>> I`ve noticed a problem on a couple of my Vista machines when a secondary
>> monitor is attached. I am running Vista Business at my company on 3
>> different Lenovo notebooks and when I unlock my machine the screen seems
>> to blink a few times before settling down back to normal.
>>
>> Initially I thought it was due to an inferior screen card but then
>> noticed the problem on a much higher spec notebook. I`ve tried the
>> following:
>> - changed the resolution on both monitors to match,
>> - changed the refresh rate to match,
>> - disabled Aero,
>> - optimized for performance,
>> - remove any desktop backgrounds, etc
>> - updated my display driver to the latest driver revision
>>
>> None of these changes have made any difference regarding my specific
>> problem.
>>
>> An interesting note, my Dell notebook which has a lower spec than the
>> Lenovos works perfectly with both the standard out the box driver and the
>> latest Dell driver.
>>
>> Any suggestions welcome,
>>
>> Richard
>

 

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"Richard Thompson" <richard@thompson.co.za> wrote in message
news:1F30199E-58E3-48B5-9992-67F83134F5F3@microsoft.com...
> I`ve noticed a problem on a couple of my Vista machines when a secondary
> monitor is attached. I am running Vista Business at my company on 3
> different Lenovo notebooks and when I unlock my machine the screen seems
> to blink a few times before settling down back to normal.
>
> Initially I thought it was due to an inferior screen card but then noticed
> the problem on a much higher spec notebook. I`ve tried the following:
> - changed the resolution on both monitors to match,
> - changed the refresh rate to match,
> - disabled Aero,
> - optimized for performance,
> - remove any desktop backgrounds, etc
> - updated my display driver to the latest driver revision
>
> None of these changes have made any difference regarding my specific
> problem.
>
> An interesting note, my Dell notebook which has a lower spec than the
> Lenovos works perfectly with both the standard out the box driver and the
> latest Dell driver.


Are you using Presentation Director to change screen mode? Fn + F7. Have
you tried making a fresh scheme, or tried others?

ss.