Powerdesk 5.82 crash when selecting Multidisplay controls

[UtwigMU]

I'm also discussing this in Matrox tech support forum.

linkage

G400 16SH AGP
Millennium 2MB PCI VGA mode

Both flashed to latest BIOS.

Both driven by Powerdesk 5.82
Extra DH support for G400/G450 = installed, uninstalling it causes problems with 3D apps and doesn't help.

W2k Pro SP3
DX 8.1

When selecting Multi Display Controls from Powerdesk icon in System tray the powerdesk terminates with following error message:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

Program C:\WINNT\System32\PDesk\PDesk.exe

abnormal program termination

OK

I did a pretty thorough removal and reinstall of Powerdesk:

Examined list of driver details in Device Manager, uninstalled Matrox Display Drivers, removed all files in the list, deleted System32\PDesk folder and deleted all files used by drivers and all files starting with mga in System32 and System32\Drivers

Removed HKLM\Softwatre\Matrox registry key

Since I jumpered Millennium back to VGA Windows saw it as VGA compatible and it didn't load it's own drivers.

Installed Powerdesk 5.82.

Crash persists.

Regarding icon colour depth it appears that im SOL.

[Marshmallowman]

hmm I use the following drivers combo

g200 5.86.32.0
mystique 5.82.18.0
pdesk 6.86.0.27

I had some issue with mystque crashing until I sorted that particular driver combo out.

And for some reason I have disabled the power desk in the task bar, I think it might have taken exception a program I use.

I think I might reenable and see what happens