When display sleeps it forgets dual monitor setup?

How and why does this happen?

When I come back to my machine after being gone for a while when I wake the
machine up it always forgets my settings for the extended desktop setup with
dual displays.

This is very annoying. How can I fix this?

What video card do you have?

Device manager says:

NVIDIA Quadro NVS120M (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)

This is a Dell Latitude D820 notebook. The external display is either a
Samsung BW225 LCD or a Viewsonic EFB22(?) Graphic series, depending on which
office I'm in. The results are the same no matter which display I'm using -
after screen saver awake from sleep, for example coming back from lunch, the
display setup changes.

Thanks for any light you can shed. Someone said theirs by using specific
Vista drivers for the displays but I cannot find any Vista specific to
either the internal 1920x1200 or external screens. Hard to believe Vista
would redetect hardware every time it awakes but maybe that is the case.

I have a pair of 19" CRTs connected to my Nvidia 7600GT. I use the
Nvida control panel and have them "Configured Independently". I have
no problem losing the setting when it wakes up.

Have you downloaded and installed the lastest drivers from Nvidia
(100.65)?

Doing it now. Thanks for the tip.

I have the same issue. Whenever the display returns from sleep or machine is
unlocked, Vista returns the dual monitor orientation to the default setting.
This places main monitor (1) to the left and the secondary monitor (2) on the
right with the top of the monitors level with each other. I've noticed when
unlocking, the dual monitor orientation is correct until you see both
monitors black out for a second. That is when the orientation get reset.
This appears to be an issue in the Vista display settings getting lost from
the user profile.

I'm running a Dell D820 laptop with the Nvidia GeForce Go 7400, ForceWare
v97.46 and Nvidia Control Panel 1.3.7.37. In the Vista - Display Settings,
both monitors show as Generic PnP Monitor on NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M. The
Quadro NVS 120 M is running Driver Version 7.15.10.9746. The primary monitor
is the laptop display, the seconday monitor is a Dell 1907FP

No joy. I downloaded 100.65 and got this message when trying to run the
install:

"The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible
with your current hardware. Setup will now exit".

I think because the Dell NVIDA is OEM. I'll keep checking the Dell website
and hope they produce an update soon.

Dell had an update for the D820. Now when I right-click I have the NVIDIA
control panel. It' snow remembering which is the primary and the
resolutions, but it will not save the orientation, meaning the primary
display defaults to the left when it should be on the right.

Another annoying thing is when I save an NVIDIA profile it is not visible to
load because it is under C:\program files.

Getting closer but still not right.

-Bob

Ha, after I lock and unlock it moves my task bar to the other screen while
my desktop icons are still on what was the primary. I think I liked it
better without the NVIDIA driver. To be fair I think Dell's implementation
is missing some features: there is no option to change the resolution within
the NVIDIA control panel even though the description says it does.

I dont think this is a Nvidia or an issue with your laptop. i have been
running Vista 32 bit on my previous laptop with an Nvidia GeForce 60
6800 with the same issue. i just got my new unit and loaded 64 bit. on
it with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 and have the vary same issue. this
is the first posts i have found in 3 months of looking for this issue.
it has to be a system wide issue but i havent found the solution for it
yet.


--
Ruger_fan

Interesting post but rather irrelevent. Because you deleted what you were
commenting on so noone knows anything other than you've used two video
cards. Not very exciting. And this is not a web site so what you see is not
what most see.

Actually it is a web site and while there are many people like yourself
that have nothing better to do than waste people's time chastising
others for your perceived etiquette breaches. I was trying to add
detail to the post. please spend some of your time thinking beyond
yourself.

There are 100,000s of people who can't see what you see.

See for yourself

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...rdware_devices

And 90% will already have deleted the messages you think we can all see.
They by default get deleted when 5 days old. If you can't meet the standards
then don't post here. Quote the thread. Simple.

Just because you use (I hope you aren't paying) a organisation that steals
the efforts of others is not my problem. If you want the 100,000s looking at
your issue then put it in your post.

Yep, and I've got all the exact same drivers and info except my external
monitor is a Viewsonic G220FB.

Also when I try to run the NVidia control panel it *sometimes* crashes when
I call it from inside the Vista advanced display properties nvidia tab.

It's been consistent in saving the resolutions, but puts them on the wrong
screen after I unlock or login. But it will not save my setting for the
external as the primary display.

I am using a D-Dock docking station when I am in the office and I have my
laptop on the left at 1440x900 and the external on the right as my my
primary screen at 1280x1024.

When I'm out of the docking station my screen will revert to the native
1920x1200, which is what I want. In the office I do my graphic work on the
CRT but when I use the internal display I of course need to run at the
native resolution or the graphics look like crap.

When I put it back in the docking station and start cold the laptop gets the
1280x1024 res and is primary and the external is 1440x900, exact opposite of
what I want. I wish there was a way to script going into the display
settings to change this because it's getting old doing this a couple times a
day. Phew.

This is definitely a Vista-wide issue, without regard to hardware. I
have a brand new Thinkpad T60p, and the display/dual monitor
orientation is correct for a half second after unlocking, then the
screen goes black, and the orientation is flipped. There are another
few threads with other users reporting the same problem:
http://dotnet.org.za/hiltong/archive...unlocking.aspx

I suggest people file bug reports with MSFT; perhaps they will correct
the issue once Vista is out of beta testing. The first release is
always beta, right? ;-)

I found an interesting post on MSFT Communities; there are two workarounds to this problem:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...c7c&sloc=en-us

[Dannyboy888]

Try switching the primary monitor to secondary and the secondary monitor to primary (or vice versa). It worked for me on a Toshiba Satellite running on Vista 64 bit. In Vista you can go to display setting --> advanced setting --> Intel® Graphic Media accelerator driver for Mobile --> graphic properties --> then, reverse the settings under display selection (primary to secondary or secondary to primary, in other words make display 1 into 2, 2 into 1 or vice versa). Hope this works for you.

Dannyboy888