G'day Tom,
Below are some responses I gave to Bill Williams at Parliament House
Library.
We are now using MapInfo 8.0 and still need to force the LCD monitors to
refresh once in a while.
I suggest you trial another card to eliminate that part of the puzzle. We
changed to Matrox Millennium P650 PCIe 128 with 128 Mb memory and all is
well.
There are a few posts on this in the archives.
HTH
Greg.
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Greg Francisco
Senior Mapping & Design Officer
Mapping and Design Services
Dept. of Infrastructure - Planning & Policy
Nauru House, Level 10, 80 Collins St,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3000.
61 3 9655 3424
http://www.doi.vic.gov.au/
Bill ,
Our problems didn't go until we physically swapped the card over. Even with
the NVIDIA program disabled, we still had problems.
Having said that, and now using MapInfo 8 (was 7.8), there are the
occasional screen redraws needed to manually refresh the dual monitors.
Quite possibly it maybe a function of dual monitors and MapInfo 8, or
network traffic/access - both very hard to pinpoint a source of the
problem.
May be worth trialling another graphics card and see what it eliminates?
HTH
Cheers
Greg
G'day Bill,
We have just replaced PCs and 21" CRT monitors for twin 19" monitors LCD
screens, controlled by Nvidia Quadro NVS280 PCI graphics card. We use
MapInfo v 7.8, Win2000, 1 Gbyte Ram, CPU 3.60 GHz, Intel Pentium.
Pretty good specs. Prior to this we used Matrox G550 dual head card.
When we first fired up and enabled the Nvidia Desktop Manager, we had
exactly your type of problems, including problems with WinExplorer locking
up for loooong times.
I am using version 61.85 of the Desktop Mngr with just about everything
turned off, apart from the window control settings for: spanning across
dual screens and application jump to opposite monitor.
This seems to have settled it all down, although screen redraw can be
clunky at times. It seems if you get the PC doing too much, it will effect
Nvidia.
My boss is trialling a later driver - v105.25, but we are not sure yet if
it makes a difference.
In a word - still trialling it all. Disabling the Desktop Manager gets rid
off the problems, but also turns off the dual monitor functionality.
I have a word doc file with screen captures of my Nvidia settings which I
am currently using. I can email this direct to you (and anybody else) for
you to compare.
You can also ring me seeing you're not too far away!
Hope this helps towards a frustrating problem. If we can't get it resolved,
we will probably swap back to the old PC Matrox cards to see what happens.
Cheers
Greg.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/09/2006 10:50:24 PM:
> Hi all
> Just updated monitor and video card – now having trouble with
> MapInfo locking up.
>
> Using
> MapInfo V8.5
> Dell 24” LCD 2407WFP
> NVIDIA GeForce 6800XT video card using 1920 by 1200 resolution
> Windows XP Pro SP2
> Pentium 4 S775-650 3.4Ghz
> GA 8N-SLI PRO Motherboard
>
> Any ideas anyone
>
> Regards
> Tom Orr
>
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> Wongaling Beach
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> Australia
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