Resolution Display Problems - Help Required.

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Hello;
I was playing a full-screen game when it crashed, leaving my computer in the
games default resolution which was far too big for my own liking. I changed
the display resolution as you would normally (Properties > Settings > Screen
Resolution), the display was still looking mucked up so I chose to restart my
computer. When my computer tried to reboot, it only got as far as the XP
Loading screen and then went into a black screen and my monitors activity
light started flashing, on the black screen a blue box appeared which said
“Self Diagnostic: PC DISPLAY SETTINGS CORRECT?� – I wasn’t sure what to do
here and after only a few seconds the box goes away. Everytime I try to
reboot my computer manually this comes up and I really need to access my
computer properly.. I tried all the usual things like pressing “Y� or “Y-E-S�
or “N� and such forth, as well as “CTRL+ALT+DEL� and “ALT+F4�. I’m not
getting anywhere so I was hoping that somebody could help me out.

Somehow I managed to bypass this screen once, but I have no idea how – and,
when I restarted again later on, the same problem arose.

Thanks a lot.

 

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Andrew, rt click on Desktop>select Properties>Settings>Advanced>General
Tab>click on Apply new Display Settings
without Restarting.
"Andrew Milne" <Andrew Milne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:785C11AF-3B21-46F1-AE69-98E735FAD424@microsoft.com...
> Hello;
> I was playing a full-screen game when it crashed, leaving my computer in
> the
> games default resolution which was far too big for my own liking. I
> changed
> the display resolution as you would normally (Properties > Settings >
> Screen
> Resolution), the display was still looking mucked up so I chose to restart
> my
> computer. When my computer tried to reboot, it only got as far as the XP
> Loading screen and then went into a black screen and my monitors activity
> light started flashing, on the black screen a blue box appeared which said
> "Self Diagnostic: PC DISPLAY SETTINGS CORRECT?" - I wasn't sure what to do
> here and after only a few seconds the box goes away. Everytime I try to
> reboot my computer manually this comes up and I really need to access my
> computer properly.. I tried all the usual things like pressing "Y" or
> "Y-E-S"
> or "N" and such forth, as well as "CTRL+ALT+DEL" and "ALT+F4". I'm not
> getting anywhere so I was hoping that somebody could help me out.
>
> Somehow I managed to bypass this screen once, but I have no idea how -
> and,
> when I restarted again later on, the same problem arose.
>
> Thanks a lot.

 

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Thanks Rich Barry but I'm not sure you understand my situation... I can't get
my computer past startup - I never have an opertunity to go properties,
settings, advanced, general, apply new display settings without restarting.

The only thing I can do is get into safe mode by pressing F8 before the
black screen shows up - I changed the settings there, saved without
restarting and then tried restarting normally but no can do; it reverted to
its problematic ways.

 

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If you can get into Safe Mode, you will need to go into your device manager,
and uninstall your video card drivers. Install the STANDARD drivers
supplied by Microsoft. Once this is done, you should be able to reboot your
computer normally, however your display resolution will be very large like
you originally said...

Once rebooted normally, you will now need to go back and reinstall the
proper video drivers for your particular video card. By the sounds of it,
one or more of your driver files ended up getting corrupted during the
freeze...

Hope this clears up your problems...


"Andrew Milne" <AndrewMilne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:12EA95F2-9C14-4E71-AEF1-4BF232D48F99@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Rich Barry but I'm not sure you understand my situation... I can't
get
> my computer past startup - I never have an opertunity to go properties,
> settings, advanced, general, apply new display settings without
restarting.
>
> The only thing I can do is get into safe mode by pressing F8 before the
> black screen shows up - I changed the settings there, saved without
> restarting and then tried restarting normally but no can do; it reverted
to
> its problematic ways.

 

[Guest]

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Andrew, while in Safe Mode try Start>run type: msconfig Select
Boot.ini and see if BaseVideo is checked. If yes,
uncheck it. Under General Tab select Normal Startup Click Apply Ok.

"Andrew Milne" <Andrew Milne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:785C11AF-3B21-46F1-AE69-98E735FAD424@microsoft.com...
> Hello;
> I was playing a full-screen game when it crashed, leaving my computer in
> the
> games default resolution which was far too big for my own liking. I
> changed
> the display resolution as you would normally (Properties > Settings >
> Screen
> Resolution), the display was still looking mucked up so I chose to restart
> my
> computer. When my computer tried to reboot, it only got as far as the XP
> Loading screen and then went into a black screen and my monitors activity
> light started flashing, on the black screen a blue box appeared which said
> "Self Diagnostic: PC DISPLAY SETTINGS CORRECT?" - I wasn't sure what to do
> here and after only a few seconds the box goes away. Everytime I try to
> reboot my computer manually this comes up and I really need to access my
> computer properly.. I tried all the usual things like pressing "Y" or
> "Y-E-S"
> or "N" and such forth, as well as "CTRL+ALT+DEL" and "ALT+F4". I'm not
> getting anywhere so I was hoping that somebody could help me out.
>
> Somehow I managed to bypass this screen once, but I have no idea how -
> and,
> when I restarted again later on, the same problem arose.
>
> Thanks a lot.