pcAnywhere causes graphics driver issue

[ljreed]

Hi,

I am running a windows 2000 professional guest on a windows server 2003 server. I installed pcAnywhere 10.5 on the guest machine and rebooted but when it came back up the graphics driver had reverted from the one installed by the guest additions to the standard VGA driver. I thought maybe only the settings had changed so I went into the system properties and as soon as I click the Settings tab the computer crashes, gives the BSOD and reboots. I tried re-installing the guest additions and also removing the display adapter from device manager and rebooting to re-install it but to no avail. I also thought maybe the VRDP being enabled might have caused so I disabled it but that has changed nothing. If I remove pcAnywhere then the additions display adapter driver works fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[rjo98]

I stopped using pcanywhere a while ago because of its video driver problems, so i'm not surprised it caused grief with the generic vbox graphics driver. can you use the built in rdp or vnc to connect to it remotely perhaps?

[ljreed]

Hi,

Unfortunately I cannot use anything other than pcAnywhere as the PC it is on is a server for one of our customers which they remotely connect to. I could try to convince them to use something like VNC (which works with no problems), which I think has a file transfer capability which is quite important as they drop an orders file into a custom program they use.

Oh well, seems like it is a generic issue that can't be resolved easily. Thanks anyway