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| 285904 | 2004-10-29 04:58:00 | Hi, have a P3 550 running XP Pro and a ati 16mb graphics card...i think it was an ATI. I gave it to my brother. i had the display resolution set at 1024x768. he has set it up with his old monitor but the res must be too high for his old monitor as all he gets is rubbish. he has tried going into safe mode which has a lower res so it's easier to read but can't keep that res setting. how can we reset the res to a lower setting when we can't see it? Any help would be appreciated. cheers. |
jabba (3215) | ||
| 285905 | 2004-10-29 05:05:00 | Just to clarify things - you have manually changed the resolution to a lower setting (eg 800x600) whilst in Safe Mode, but when you boot back into Normal Mode it loads 1024x768 instead of 800x600? | Jen C (20) | ||
| 285906 | 2004-10-29 05:07:00 | thats correct, any ideas? | jabba (3215) | ||
| 285907 | 2004-10-29 05:08:00 | if hes getting "rubbish" is it only from that monitor, and it works fine on others, have you tried a driver update? | Prescott (11) | ||
| 285908 | 2004-10-29 06:10:00 | Some suggestions Find name, model etc of old monitor and get a manual off the Internet Try another computer to monitor cable, it may have damaged pins, hence rubbish. If possible degauss the monitor |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 285909 | 2004-10-29 06:33:00 | Perhaps more likely it is the refresh rate that is set too high, not the resolution, and the display adapter reverts to its original setting when rebooting into normal mode. Maybe the thing to do is to go into safe mode and reset the display to 640x480 and from the adapter tab set the refresh rate to adapter default or to a lower refresh rate if the options are available. Then again the monitor vga cable could be crook, but I think you would easily see if the monitor has just lost vertical or horizontal sync. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 285910 | 2004-10-29 06:34:00 | In safe mode remove the drivers - system - device manager - and set to standard VGA. You should then be able to install the drivers again. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 285911 | 2004-10-29 18:34:00 | Terry and Peter, I think your onto it...if i uninstall the display driver it will reset back to defaults and should be able to choose vga settings which is the most the monitor can handle, i think. this is not unusual for this to happen with this monitor, with his old 'puter every time it was sent in for repair, my brother would have the same problem when it came home, but it was easily fixed in safe mode, this time though the new one has a seperate graphics card and the old one only had the MB integrated graphics. he will get a new monitor eventually, but cannot afford it at this time, so this is why we are have to do this. he lives in dunedin, i was thinking of trying the remote support in XP but i don't think you can do that in safe mode, eh!? |
jabba (3215) | ||
| 285912 | 2004-10-29 20:48:00 | Not sure why you should need to go into safe mode. Can't you just go into display properties and reset the res to 800x600? | Greg S (201) | ||
| 285913 | 2004-10-29 21:08:00 | Because Greg, in normal mode the screen is just a jumble, so there is no way to click on anything :) It sounds very much as though this monitor is a very old VGA one, that will only display 640x480 at a limited refresh rate, maybe 60Hz. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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