Help with multiple monitors

Hi Guys,
I've run in to a bit of an issue with my MP. I run three monitors off two GT120 cards. They work great in OSX and did work fine in Win7. We've just moved and when Ifired up the mac again at the new place the three monitors work fine in OSX still but when I bootcamp in to Win7 it will only work with one monitor if I power up the other two it either rearranges the screens around of blanks them all so that I end up with a black screen that I can move the mouse pointer around on and the other screens say they have no input and switch off. Occasionally win7 shuts down completely!
It's got me baffled.......I don't know windows that well to start rummaging around too much and OSX is working fine so the hardware is OK. HELP!!
Cheers
Mike
P.S. Everything is up to date.............in fact nothing has changed since the whole set-up was moved to the new house.

I think I have it worked out. I put the Kona card in "input passthrough" mode and all seems to work just fine. I had it in MacIntosh desktop and that was causing my problem
If any other suggestions I am sure open to them.
Thanks
John

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    Then again, I'd take it one step further and ask to investigate the base design. There should be little reason to change the schema based on time. Indeed, from what little I know of your app, I'd have to ask whether adding a 'date' column and appropriate views or properly coded SQL statements might simplify things. Interesting. If we were to have one big Customer table with views for each month, how would we handle the case where the May people have to see 50 character address and July have to see a 100 character address field. I guess we could have MAY_ADDRESS VARCHAR2(50) and JULY_ADDRESS VARCHAR2(100) and take care to make sure that people connecting as May can only see the May columns, etc. This is simpler than multiple schemas?
    I may have overly simplified things in my effort to get something down that would not require too much explanation. The big thing is that multiple people are doing development and they have to be independent of each other. If we were to drop a column for July, the May people will have trouble compiling if we don’t keep things separate. It is not a case of making the data available. The data in development is something we cook up to allow us to test. The other part is the code we compile now will be released to production one of these times. In production, there is only a need for one database.
    We are moving from another database product where multiple databases are effectively different sets of files. We have lots of disk space so multiple databases were no problem. Oracle is such a powerful product; I can’t believe there is not some way to set up something similar.

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