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Hi,

I just installed a new driver from Nvidia's site on my computer (Driver: - official driver). I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440.

Now everytime I restart my computer, the resolution is set back to 640x480.

This is really weird and I've never seen this before. The only problem that I think would be causing this is that I have Windows XP SP2 installed (the final release not beta)

If anyone has any ideas or has this happend to you? :eek:

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Short summary and targeted troubleshooting based on 's notes: an app or the video driver itself is most likely changing the display mode after full power cycles. That can happen either when a vendor "control panel" utility reapplies a stored profile at startup, when the display driver fails to load and Windows falls back to a basic VGA mode, or when the monitor EDID/cable handshake is lost and a safe/default mode is chosen.

Practical steps (in order of least to most invasive):

  • Inspect boot-time errors with eventvwr.msc (System/Application logs) for display- or driver-related errors around the time of startup.
  • Open Device Manager and enable View → Show hidden devices. Expand Monitors and Display adapters and uninstall duplicates or unknown devices, then reboot so Windows redetects them.
  • Disable nonessential vendor startup items temporarily with msconfig (or Sysinternals Autoruns) to confirm whether a tray/control-panel app is overwriting settings.
  • Perform a clean driver install: uninstall the current driver, boot Safe Mode if needed, remove leftover driver files (a driver-clean utility can help), then install a WHQL/stable driver matched to the OS and GPU rather than a bleeding-edge build.
  • Rule out EDID/cable/monitor issues by testing with a different cable, input, or monitor; long cold-power-down behavior often points to handshake problems.

Advanced note: display settings are persisted in system registry keys under the Control\Video branches. Only experienced users should edit these — always export the key first. Useful diagnostic info for pinpointing the root cause includes the exact driver package name/version, display-related Event Viewer errors, Device Manager screenshots, and the monitor make/model. These items narrow whether the failure is a driver crash, a utility overwrite, or an EDID/monitor detection issue.

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Oh man. I think I got it.

I disabled the nvidia startup program (nwiz.exe) and it seems like now it is fine.

:mrgreen:

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That's weird. When I turned off or reset my computer it was fine. but then I come back 8 hours after shutting down the darn thing and the resolution is reset again to 640x480.

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