From: "Brian Walters"
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.
Sounds like your video card doesn't output the higher wide-screen
resolutions to the standard 15-pin VGA connector. Higher than 1280x800
and you have to use the HDMI connection.
What I don't understand is why you didn't get the dialog box that asks
you to click OK to accept the higher resolution. Since you couldn't see
the dialog box to click OK, it should have reverted to 1280 x 800
automatically after about 15 seconds.
Auto-detect for the plug and play monitor apparently worked, so that's
why you could see it on the regular 19 inch monitor. It reset the video
mode when it detected the new monitor.
Then switched back to your chosen resolution when you reconnected the
wide-screen monitor, so you got the blank screen again.
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