Rogue OSD-SetDisplay tasks in M17x Windows 7 64

I use dual monitors with my M17x and every now and then, for unknown reasons, OSD shows this transparent icon in the middle of the screen and then it reconfigures my multiple display settings to " Duplicate these displays" from my normal " Extend these displays" setting. The icon seems to be one that shows up if one attached an external monitor, i.e., as if it just detected it and goes to configure the dual monitor setup. That's nice, except that it's already done.

This is extremely annoying not only because I have to go and change it again but also sometimes I have an external monitor of a lower resolution, and the duplication resets everything to use that lower resolution while resizing all the windows in my main monitor. After going back to extending, I then have to resize and reposition all these windows.

These happens without changing anything anywhere. I mean, I'm typing an email and then out of nowhere, bang, OSD thinks it needs to reconfigure. It's like if Windows detected a configuration change.

Worse, I then have a bunch of OSD-SetDisplay.exe processes doing nothing as you can see in the attached image.

It's not clear whether this an issue with OSD, Nvidia driver, Windows 7 or a combination but a Google search hasn't come with anything.

Anybody else experience this unexpected reconfiguration?

I'd like to get some information before I call tech support ... or hopefully not have to call them ... imagine explaining this, trying to reproduce it or figure out if it's already fixed? :-(

Thanks

 

Bump. I'm sure somebody else must have this issue, right?

 

Did you ever find a solution to this issue? I have the same problem with the same setup.

 

I have this happen from time to time. I generally just use my sammy RGB LED external with laptop monitor off and it happens.. It just did it this morning on me and I Had to reconfigure it. I agree its a pain in the rear...

 

Wow - that certainly is not good. Been a bit since you last visited so who knows if you will see this - what happens when you close down one or multiple instances of "OSD-SetDisplay.exe"? Clear reproduction path or completely random? Going to try to reproduce this - very odd.

Kilthro or bstrong?

 

I get the transparent ICON(LCD) whenever I connect any external hardware-mouse, HD, phone, usb. Am I the only one? Tried once to connect an ext monitor, but gave up quick bc I had another lappy close by I could use so can't provide too much help there. Will try tonight though.

 

Well I havent looked to see if I have multiple instances of OSD running. I just know it happens and sometimes it happens when waking from sleep or when the video cards change modes while loading/unloading a game.. Its generally a quick flash and the transparent icon comes up for the OSD that shows both laptop monitor and the vga icon for the desktop.. What is weird is the resolution was set to 1600x800 when neither of my screens have that as a native resolution. 1920x1080 for external and 1920x1200 for laptop so it seems like it glitches out. In my case its random.. I havent been able to reproduce consistently.. I have had it happened a couple of times in one day, and sometimes I can go a month without it. I had it happen on the R1 as well a few times before I got rid of it.

 

Yeah that is very odd. The multiple instances are bad, especially if it just sits there doing nothing hogging memory. Yikes. Thanks for the follow-up.

That should be normal - I see it as well when connecting an external. I would be concerned with the actual behavior the OP posted.

 

Yw. I will check when I get home to see if more than one are running. I think the last time I had task manager open i only seen one. If it wasnt for needing that software for the touch panel I wouldnt have it installed at all. I dont care to see the transparent image pop up.

 

I rebooted this morning and have not been able to get it to happen since. Once it does start happening, it will happen pretty much anytime I plug something into a usb port, sometimes for no apparent reason. My gut feeling is that it has something to do with the driver for the video card, but I don't have any hard evidence to back that up.

 

Interesting - well, the multiple instances of OSD should not be caused by the display driver. I don't see how the display driver would be able to launch OSD's component. Weird.

 

Well to be fair, in my situation it may not be OSD causing it. I see the pop up when it happens since the video output selections change and OSD would pop up by default to show that the settings changed... At this time I dont know what is really causing it.

 

Well I didnt have any multiple OSD exes running. I will check at the time this problem happens again to see if that is a possible reason.

One thing I think is going on, is that the Ati CCC is not syncing up with windows 7 settings that you go to when right clicking on the desktop to screen resolution ect. I noticed that the ATI CCC was set to 60 hz refresh rate and proper resolution for the external monitor but windows 7 was set to 59hz and the messed up resolution when my last problem happened. So I think there is a messup with windows 7 somehow changing/overriding/messing up with what CCC has set. I am running the 10.3 preview drivers and have been since I had my R1.

So when Windows 7 changes the settings/freaks out, the OSD is displayed just because output settings changed.. I doubt its the program itself.. More of a driver/os bug in my situation.

 

Excellent observation/point Kilthro. Makes sense. Interesting to see if others have had this. Would like to hear from the OP however, we know how that goes... sometimes they never log back in to NBR.

 

Use the "NBR force" to pull them back lol

 

I am running the Nvidia GeForce 9400 and it looks like my settings sync up from what I can tell. The Nvidia control panel has a ton of options to configure. It could still be that windows 7 is fighting for control over these.