Monitor problems worsen...

[MC]

After someone set my monitor to 1600x1200 which it cannot handle, I went into safe mode on Scotter's advice and set it back to 1024x768. When I rebooted it came up 800x640 or whatever the safe mode res is and could not be changed. Would not recognize my vid card (Diamond speedstar A50) and the monitor was "unkown" also. Now it is stuck at 800x640 and running on the windows "standard vga pci" setting (16 colors at 800x640). Can someone explain this? I guess I may have to reinstall the drivers for the vidcard, as the computer recognizes it but says there is "a problem", then suggests I update the drivers. WTF? This is really annoying. Thanks in advance.

- MC

[scotter]

sorry about that ok this is probably what hapened and also why you where getting the black screen you need to have your driver disk's handy then go to start, settings, control panel, system, device manager,

look under moniter if there are 2 entrys delete them both then look under display adapters same thing there if there are 2 delete them both also loke for any device's with a ! or a ? and delete them also then restart your computer and windows will reinstall the drivers or ask for the driver disk's

if there are not any double listings under those headings then go to disply in control panel
go to settings then adavnced, go to adapter and ckick change have your driver disk handy
and reinstall your drivers do the same thing
under moniter
then reboot and it should be ok /forum/smile.gif

hope that fix's it this time /forum/smile.gif some times windows like's to make it hard /forum/smile.gif


[This message has been edited by scotter (edited 11-29-1999).]

[This message has been edited by scotter (edited 11-29-1999).]

[Axel]

You might also surf to the monitor manufacturer's web site and see if they have an update *.inf file.
The HP home site does for their monitors. Basically, you take the new *.inf file, put it in the windows/inf directory and restart your computer. The latest file from your monitor manufacturer will have the setting specs for your monitor in them so, when you go to identify your monitor in display settings, it will be specifically listed there and windows will know what colors and resolution it can handle.
Hope that helps out. Scotter's suggestions should also work, but a new *.inf file is a long term solution if available.