>My 8500 has multi-scan display. My icons and menu bar are gone from my
>desktop. They appear to be off to the left of my display area. How can I
>get my stuff back on the desktop? How can I turn off the multiscan display?
I had exactly the same problem with my 8500 - the computer's vram
thought that it was driving both a monitor and a TV in my case - both
devices showed up in the monitors control panel. Put a pci graphics card
in and it went away.
The fix was very simple - the 4x1MB sticks of vram have to be
installed in matching paired slots on the mobo.
My 8600 also had vram in unmatched slots when I got it - someone had
taken the top two out - but instead of mirroring I got the breaking glass
sound and no startup until I paired the sticks.
Pete
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