On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:44 -0500, "Doug Franklin" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-02-14 6:50, Brian Walters wrote: > > > The first problem was that the OS booted up and set my 19 in wide screen > > monitor at 1280 x 800 resolution. "No problem", I thought. "Go to > > Display Properties and nudge it up to the native 1440 x 900". Bad idea. > > The screen went black and stayed like that. Hmmmm. Reboot - no > > display, so I couldn't even reset it back to the lower res. Swapped the > > widescreen for my wife's 19 in standard screen. Well, at least that > > worked. Reconnect the widescreen and the black screen returned. > > When you get the black screen problem like that, reboot the machine and > watch closely. Just after the BIOS messages leave the screen, press the > F8 key a few times. That should get you a boot selection menu screen. > One of the menu items will be "start Windows in Safe Mode with VGA". > Choose that item and it should drop back to no better than 800 lines of > resolution, which nearly any monitor can handle. That'll give you a > chance to reset the video mode, update video drivers, etc.
Yes, I did that but I could only set the resolution to something like 1280 x 800 max. I couldn't find any thing in the registry that looked like resolution settings and I still got the black screen on the next normal boot. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
