Thread: Vista monitor drivers acting up

I bought a new monitor (LG W2343-T) and it works perfect, no dead pixels or anything. But, for some reason the display likes to randomly switch to 800x600 resolution and will not switch back to my normal resolution until i restart my computer. The only way to fix this is to roll back my drivers to the windows PnP drivers. the problem is that even when i roll back the drivers the problem will still randomly come back. then i would have to install the LG drivers again, and it will work perfect again, until it randomly gives me problems.

Does anybody know what exactly is going on here? I have to keep switching my monitor drivers back any forth between the LG drivers and the windows drivers to fix this. I'm running 64-bit Vista Home Premium.

Thanks

That sounds like the video card drivers not the monitor drivers causing that. What video card are you using? Have you tried to reinstall.The drivers for it?

I'm using an XFX Radeon HD 4890 XT. I haven't tried to reinstall the catalyst drivers, but i see that the 9.7 drivers are out and i only have 9.6. So i'll try that. I updated my drivers/catalyst to the newest (9.7) and the problem is still there. it usually triggers when i change my resolution or when i play a game. it happens around 3 times a day.

I'm not a user of those video cards but Ill hang in till someone else comes by. I am running a LG monitor and I haven’t seen this.

My next thought would be to try deleting the LG driver and see what happens.
Let windows give it a driver when it boots.

You may not see your monitor listed, it may show as generic, but you should be able to configure its settings.

I recently reloaded my computer and used a image file to do it. The image didn’t contain the monitor driver but everything went well. Actually though I didn’t see any difference after the driver.

So in device manager try to disable the driver and reboot and see what happens.
If all else fails after that boot to safe mode and reenable the driver and reboot.

It may show up as the driver is there after the reboot, but it shouldn’t. If it does try to disable it again in DM and move around to see what happens.

It won’t delete it. The worst thing that could happen is that you will have to get the driver from the LG website.