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3 monitors, but the start button and icons are on the center monitor? [start button] [monitors]

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:36:54 +0000

Q: I have the left monitor is set as the start primary.

Why buttons and all my icons on the center monitor? and how can I fix this?

Re:Because it is windows

Re:Originally posted by: guy
Could I suggest – re-arranging the monitors on your desk?

Just a thought…

i edited my msg to include monitor sizes.

now you see why i want everything on the 3rd monitor

Re:Could I suggest – re-arranging the monitors on your desk?

Just a thought…

Re:primary video = gf4 4200 64meg agp
secondary monitor = radeon 32meg pci

3rd monitor (20" LCD 1600×1200) = primary = dvi port on gf4
2nd monitor (17" LCD 1280×1024) = vga port on gf4
1st monitor (17" CRT 1024×768) = vga port on radeon

no biggie. i can do it manually

just wondering why it didnt switch over automatically

Re:Possibly the 3rd monitor is the secondary vidcard and window's doesn't want it's desktop widgets on the secondary vidcard?

Re:Try disabling every monitor other than the one you want to have all the icons on, click Apply…re-enable other monitors

guy

Re:when i went from single monitor to 2 monitor, the icons and task bar moved automatically to the new monitor when i set it to primary.

how come it didnt do it this time when i set the 3rd monitor as primary?

also, gota drag and drop the icons to new monitor too? (highlight all then drag/drop?)

Re:Unlock the taskbar, then ckick and drag it to the desired monitor.

It will remain on that monitor regrdless of which monitor you choose as primary.

M@rc

my computer refuses to respond! [start button] [p3]

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:34:08 +0000

Q: Hi, this is my first post here, happy to talk to you,

I an old P3 500, Asus P3B-F mobo, Ive used for 5 years. I recently re-post Win 98SE, . I was browsing on my desktop, I was posting some icons . and then everything got frozen . I have my computer off Ans that was the last time I saw it live. I

When the start, fans start to push, I can hear my hard drive scratch a bit and this is it., . The monitor never turns on and nothing is booting. I can not see anything.

here is what I have done / tested

Fisrt power: with a tester, I checked the voltage and it was fine
Hard disk, processor, graphics card, I tried with another, and it has changed my bios with nothing.
I jumper, unpluged the connector, pulled the battery let it sit for hours . nothing . black screen and fan noise (I mean no power from the screen to the computer)

is a sign that my motherboard burned. . but why after 5 years. This is only my battery? usually there would be at least a message telling something about my poor battery . Do you agree with my conclusion . I have on my motherboard . I change nothing I try?

thanks

Best Answer: Wow. Such a temper.

Did you try removing and reseating your RAM?

Did you try removing and reseating your Video Card?

Did you try removing and reseating all of your other add on cards?

One loose card, one loose stick of RAM, and by loose, I mean improperly seated, could cause the machine to not want to boot.

Your power supply itself could be an issue. I doubt you have a power supply tester handy though.

Yeah, sure, you could just throw it away…. in which case, email me so I can give you my address and you can ship it to me instead of throwing it in the trash….
or..
You can take it down to a local repair shop and have them take a loo at it. I mean, come on… if it is something small that is causing your problem, is it really worth getting a whole new machine? And again, if you are just on the new machine kick, I'll take the old one.

Re:Take a look at your capacitors on the motherboard. There was a period of time a few years ago when almost the entire MB industry was plagued by bad capacitors. You can often times see bad ones by the fact that they look like they have exploded internally, so instead of having a smooth cylindrical shape with flat tops, they might instead of tops that are elevated and rounded, like a hill. Or, they might show leakage at the bottom or anywhere else.

Use a magnifying glass to take a good look at them.

http://www.badcaps.net has some pics of examples of this problem.

Re:the only thing i have'nt tried swaping is my mobo and psu. I have swaped with another brandnew harddrive, videocard and even another P3 500… always end up with no signals…but agp video fan is working, harddrive scratchs, psu fan working light on my motherboard is on…there is only one green led on it which i could'nt find what it means. There is no beep…nothing strange…just no signal.

(it's not my monitor, cause i have it working right now on my other system…which everything is almost incompatible with my old one)

So after all you've said, my best guess would be to try with another PSU and then if not working again, i'll change my motherboard… since i have already tried to disconnect everything as guy mentionned.

I am looking with my neibour shop to get a PSU i'll let you know if something will bring back this thing alive….then if someone get another good idea to help

thanks folks

Re:Do you have a spare video card to try? At least do this:

Reseat all your cards and cables. I would pull them out and put them back in, to be sure.

I'm thinking a video issue, given what you've described. Does the video card have a fan built in? Is the fan working?

Re:Trouble with a tester is that it tests averages – no way you could read a voltage every 10 milliseconds.

If the power is dropping for just 20 milliseconds, you will have probs [1/50 second]. Maybe even less tolerance than that.
I personally would DISCONNECT EVERYTHING from mobo except psu/cpu+fan/case spkr/pwr switch header.
Switch on and see what happens.
If same, then you know it is either mobo/cpu/psu. – You will have to swap parts to see what is happening, unless you have a pci post card diagnostic tool to hand.- highly recommended.
If you hear beeps, then add RAM.
carry on till nothing responds.

Re:When a PSU fail…Does it still produce voltage? Cause i ve checked it with a tester, and i could read all of them ( 5v,12v,3v… on every cables)

Re:Well.. as far as computer components with finite lifetimes.. I'd have to rate mobos close to the top, under HDs and mice/keyboards (and cheap PSUs), they often do fail somewhere in that timeframe, although generally they fail gradually, as the capacitor eletrolytes dry out, and other components degrade with time. Although, board flex/connector-failure is a semi-common cause of death of well-used boards too.

I killed my BX6-r2 due to an "accident", but then the BH6 I was using for some time afterwards, running a PIII 1Ghz Coppermine, finally gave up the ghost after slowly, occasionally, flaking out. The VRMs on the BH6 were pretty severely taxed by the PIII 1Ghz chip though. No matter how much higher I boosted the volts in the BIOS, I couldn't get much above 1.65-1.7v, which is the minimum it needed to be stable.

The fact that your system failed suddenly and catastrophically, and didn't boot again, sounds like some component simply finally gave up the ghost, although it's not obvious whether it was the PSU, the mobo, or something else, although the mobo is probably highly suspect at that age. (Unless the PSU is of similar age – PSUs usually fail before mobos do, due to the higher heat that the components are exposed to.)

Re:I dont have a second PSU in my hand to check with.. but i am really confident that it works.

Do you think it could be my motherboard? Is it possible for a motherboard to just go away after 5 years of exellent work?

I have never overclocked it…

Thanks for your answers

Re:Yes, but if you have another one, try it anyway.

Re:I 've checked it already and it produce some juice…i got all the voltage necessary……..

Re:Welcome to the Forums If you have another power supply available (in another computer, maybe?), try it next.

The start button does not suddenly in a win 2k Advanced Server [start button] [server setup]

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:30:28 +0000

Q: OK, I installed advanced server, setting up a domain, and after about one week run at the start button once will not open. when I click, it shows the start button as depressed, but it will not pop up the Windows Start menu. I can access all menus through Explorer, I can use the Windows key + R to run programs, but the menus themselves will not appear on the screen!

it is not a virus, I have symantec corporate 8 with the latest update, and the computer is not even connected to the internet yet . It is setup on LAN, and none of the customers have the start menu issues.

thanks for any help in advance!

Re:ah, ok, sweet. i will try that. i may have it set to a roaming profile right now anyways.. i will try switching it to local and see if that works.

Re:so trash the local domain admin profile (not the network profile, just the local profile)

delete:
\documents and settings\administrator.domain\

-Spy

Re:the profile works fine except for the start button, and it is the domain controller administrator account.

Re:so trash the non-functioning profile

Re:i logged in with another account, and the start button worked perfectly. i compared the services running and they are exactly the same for both (both logins are administrator level.) this is extremely strange and i've never before encountered this. thanks for the help!

Re:no more thoughts just questions.

What happened when you logged on with another account?

Re:ok, thanks for the ideas.

Re:so try logging on with another account and see if it has the same problems, if it doesnt (which I'm guessing it wont) than it's a profile specific problem & since it's a server it should be easy enough to delete the profile.

if the problem occurs under another login than my guess would be that there is another process that is interfering with explorer.exe's functioning. you could try the old "launch folder windows in a seperate process" trick, if that doesnt do it than it would be time to start looking to find out what service is causing the problem.

Re:still not sure what the problem even is bump…

Re:hmm.. i do not know, i have not tried logging on to the domain controller with another admin account. what would it mean if it did, and what would it mean if it did not?

Re:Does it occur with other user accounts on that system?

Accidentally deleted the show desktop thingy [windows 2000 pro] [start button]

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:57:43 +0000

Q: Errmmm yes, I accidentally deleted the show desguyop thing in the toolbar beside the Start button, you know the one that minimizes everything. Apparently not just a shortcut was either the actual program. Anyway, I can restore? Or maybe someone could email to me? Im running Windows 2000 pro. Of course not on the W2K CD and all cabins. Any help would be appreciated as this is very annoying.

Re:Originally posted by: guy
windows key + m works too.

not for me.

Re:windows key + m works too.

Re:That worked, thanks blueweasal.

Also, I didnt know that hotkey nohr, thank you as well. Very useful.

Re:I prefer to use the Windows key + D hotkey.

Re:Restore the Show Desguyop icon on the Quick Launch bar (http://www.dougknox.com/tips/showdesguyop.htm)

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