3 monitors New problem HELP!

[chingola]

I have three monitors running, has worked fine for ever, sometime last week my left one stopped displaying the background. You see it on start up, then dissapears, everything else works fine. Just ran 9 different spy ware etc scanners and still have problem. Updated Nvidia drivers and programs. Any Ideas
Win XP fully updated
two Nvidia cards - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT for main monitor works fine
Nvidia GeForce 6200 runing thw two other monitors one I'm having a problem with.
running on IntelCore2 4400 @ 2Ghz
4GB RAM

My best guess is something with Google desktop caused it. I removed it still having problems

[lair360]

Check your connections and see if there is any faults.

[Steeevoe]

Didn't realise you could have two different GFX cards running. How do you get that to work?

[sfan123]

If you have 2 vgas or dvis on the 8800 i would move at least another monitor to that card as it is alot more powerful than that 6200 you should deffinatly do that if you can. it should work though how you set it up so i dont no though but i would run 2 monitors on the 8800 and 1 on the 6200.

[Livewire]

sfan123's onto a good idea with moving one of the two monitors to the 8800; what this sounds MORE like though is a problem with the OS configuration or limitations itself.

Connection's won't help cause it's not the entire monitor dieing, it's just the background/wallpaper...HMMMMMMMM, you've got me stumped.


All I can think is somehow MAYBE moving 2 of the 3 to the 8800 will fix it. My guess is it won't, but it's the only idea I've got


Edit:

Didn't realise you could have two different GFX cards running. How do you get that to work?

Built into the OS and some motherboards; not sure on the specifics, but I'll bet you can't use both in FEAR for instance - you'd have to use the more powerful of the two.

[Smith6612]

Didn't realise you could have two different GFX cards running. How do you get that to work?

Easy... SLi and Software support.

[Livewire]

Easy... SLi and Software support.

Didn't know SLI worked between different video cards; that's new to me :S

[Smith6612]

Didn't know SLI worked between different video cards; that's new to me :S

It does, however based on the way nVidia codes their software, the SLi configuration would work on the slow card's speed, or you'd only be able to offload some slight data to that card. Yet again I'm not even sure if that 6 series card supports SLI with a 9 series card, so my guess is it's probably running as a separate card.

[chingola]

Don't know, just worked
Edit:
Well I finally went and changed what the monitors were plugged into and I did put two on the 880, then I lost the background on the 8800 main and one on the other, then I switched the two side monitors again and it all works once again. Very strange if you ask me. Thanks for the suggestions
Edit:
Oh, wasn't running SLI just multi monitors

[chingola]

Spoke to soon. now the background on the right monitor dropped. I have asked BFG since it came from them and well shall see what they say. This is bad, I have fixed computer problems since 1991 and cant fix my own problem....... Makes you wonder