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If you don't want to pull apart your monitor's signal cable, get a monitor signal extension cable and take
out those pins instead. This may cause degraded 2D display because the longer lead will allow for more
interference.
Apparently iiyama will send owners of their monitors a free adaptor that blocks DDC signals with no loss
in image quality.
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You can also use PowerStrip to manually set refresh rates - you can download a demo of PowerStrip at
the following website:
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/
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Ideally there should be a switch in the drivers to turn off using DDC information to set refresh rates - if
anyone knows of such a switch, let me know.
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Q. When I resume from monitor power saving modes in Windows 9x/ME, I get display
corruption and / or instability problems, or my card seems slower than usual. How can I fix
it?
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Thanks to Jarhead for pointing out this problem.
In the 6.47+ drivers under Windows 9x/ME only, there is an issue for some (not all) systems when using
monitor power saving modes. On these systems, if you allow the monitor to go into standby mode, the
drivers may try to reapply any overclocking settings
ON TOP
of your current settings when the monitor
resumes from the power savings mode. This causes display corruption and instability, and can seriously
damage your card if the card is used in this overclocked state for a long period of time.
For the most part, this only affects people that are actually overclocking with Coolbits, but it has been
reported to happen even if Coolbits is not enabled.
To see if your system is affected by this problem, perform the following steps:
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Right click on your desktop, click Properties / Screensaver / Settings / Power Schemes, and set
your monitor to shut off within 1 minute. Sit back and allow Windows to shut off your monitor.
Wait about a minute and then move the mouse a little to wake the system up.
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If you can see display corruption or the computer crashes, you have got the problem. Do not enable
the monitor power savings modes or go into Standby mode on this system.
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If you are using Coolbits to overclock, and the system does not display any problems after you
perform this test, check the NVIDIA hardware options tab to see if the overclock setting you have
previously made is still there. If it is, then the bug does not affect you.
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If you are not using Coolbits to overclock, and the system does not display any problems after you
perform this test, wait for the power saving mode to kick in and then move the mouse 5 or so times
more and see if you then get the problem. If you do not then it is almost certain that the bug does
not affect you.
This problem is eliminated for some after version 6.50,
but not for others
. You should test your system
before enabling monitor power saving modes.
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Alternatively, you may find that when you come out of power saving modes your 3D card seems slower
because the clock speed has not been restored correctly. If this is the case, you can use NVresume to reset
your clock speed when you come out of power saving modes
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just put it in your Startup group. You can
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