Re: Cannot get my Matrox P650 card seen in XP 64. by Dominic
Dominic
Sun Jan 01 15:29:03 CST 2006
You can run two monitors at different resolutions and refresh rates with the
P650 in independent mode but, as with x86, only the primary monitor can be
calibrated and profiled with any one card. This is a limitation of Windows,
but I believe it will be resolved when Vista is released.. See Display
Properties - Settings.
I understand that some calibration device drivers will be available soon,
but some older devices will not be supported.
As a profile relates to the monitor, transferring the primary x86 profile
should work fine. I assume you know that the profile needs to be redone from
time to time as the monitor characteristics change over time.
"Richard" <richard@spamfree.co.uk> wrote in message
news:fVh$2zDcBvtDFwN4@eclipse.co.uk...
> In his posting of Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Dominic Payer writes
>>My P650 is recognised by x64 as a "Matrox Millennium P650".
>>
>>You should disable the onboard graphics adapter in the BIOS, but I am not
>>aware of any motherboards with onboard Matrox graphics and if you are
>>seeing
>>a display the P650 is driving the monitor.
>>
>>Does the x64 Matrox driver setup routine recognise the P650?
>>If you have tried several versions of the Matrox driver and control panel,
>>uninstall them all in Add or Remove Programs and reboot so that you get a
>>clean system before installing the latest driver.
>>
>>Are there any Other Devices showing in Device Manager? If so, uninstall
>>them
>>and rescan. It is possible but unlikely that you have two instances of the
>>graphics card in Device Manager and the conflict is preventing the driver
>>from installing correctly.
>>
>>Is the P650 correctly recognised in x86 XP Pro?
>>Is the card correctly seated - fully home - in its slot?
>
> Dear Dominic and Frank
>
> My apologies for having not spotted your replies to my plea for help. All
> is now well thank goodness.
>
> As an afterthought, have you any suggestions how I can run two monitors
> each at a different resolution and refresh rate and each of them
> calibrated and profiled? I have tried this with two different cards
> installed, the Matrox 650 and a 450. As there are at present no monitor
> calibrators able to work in XP 64 so far what I am proposing on doing is
> moving the two monitor profiles across from XP32. The real snag is that
> I cannot get each monitor using it's own dedicated profile in XP32. I
> failed with 2k as well! Now on a Mac its no problem.....
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
>>
>>
>>"Richard K" <Richard K@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:7C40C1A7-2C02-4935-80C1-47FD0AB90406@microsoft.com...
>>>I have a dual boot system consisting of XP Pro 32 and XP Pro 64 bit.
>>>Theres
>>> are installed on their own partitions on one drive. I have the monitor
>>> plugged into the Matrox card but all that is identified in T. Manager is
>>> a
>>> generic Matrox low spec card. This is in all probibility the on board
>>> card.
>>> I have downloaded the 64 drivers from Matrox for this card but still no
>>> joy.
>>> I would really appreciate some help on this please.
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>>
>>> Richard
>>
>>
>
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> Richard
>
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