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Title: Monitor view turned sideways.
Post by: eskimo2 on September 04, 2004, 11:35:50 AM

One of the computers at my school had its monitor view turn sideways while a student was using it.  Everything is oriented with the right side of the screen as the bottom.  Mouse movements are even sideways – turned 90 degrees.  I think that I’ve seen this before, but I can’t remember where the adjustment is and could not find it with some hunting around.

Anyone know offhand how to set it straight?

Thanks,

eskimo

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Post by: takeda on September 04, 2004, 11:45:55 AM

It probably depends on the graphics card, so look for it under any "Advanced" display options.

It also might have some kind of hotkeys enabled

Ctrl and/or Alt + arrow keys are likely candidates

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Post by: NUKE on September 04, 2004, 11:46:50 AM

that's weird, I've never seen that happen.

maybe the triglycerin gyroscope fluid is low.

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Post by: Lizking on September 04, 2004, 11:51:07 AM

Right click on the desktop, properties, advanced, there is a tab to fix it.

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Post by: Blooz on September 04, 2004, 11:51:23 AM

The monitor itself can be adjusted to a horizontal or vertical position?

I know of monitors in business environments that can be turned sideways so the screen will handle a full legal size page. Maybe this is that type of monitor?

My friends Dell LCD monitor turns 90 degrees to allow this too.

See if you can turn the monitor itself back 90 degrees. I'm guessing you can if the mouse cursor is off 90 degrees too.

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Post by: Chairboy on September 04, 2004, 12:13:44 PM

Might be a joke program, too.

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Post by: SOB on September 04, 2004, 12:18:06 PM

If the computer starts spewing green watermelon and talking like a demon, run like hell!

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Post by: Cobra412 on September 04, 2004, 04:49:39 PM

I can do this with my 9800XT card.  It is under the advanced property area.

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Post by: 2shad4u on September 05, 2004, 12:21:08 AM

i know i know..................did it on my gforce card a few times it is what the resolution is set to i believe it will turn 90degrees and the mouse movement changes to................he changed the video resolution settings is all

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Post by: Whipsaw on September 11, 2004, 04:22:09 PM

I am a network admin for a call center and i ran into this the other day, One of my computers had its screen flipped upside down. At first i thought virus ( OH NO !!)  but after some reading, this is what i found out :
If its a newer HP model , They gave the option of (ctrl + arrow keys) flipping screen sideways or upside down. I guess so you can hang you monitor upside down although i cant quite figure out why you would do this.    Oh well to each its own.....   fly on

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Post by: Sandman on September 11, 2004, 05:40:05 PM

Interesting trick... On Nvidia cards (or at least this one), I can rotate the display...

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Post by: cpxxx on September 11, 2004, 05:50:45 PM

Lie it on it's side....................I'll get my coat and go.;)

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Post by: United on September 11, 2004, 05:55:21 PM

I can do it on my GeForce FX5200.

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Post by: IK0N on September 11, 2004, 06:10:14 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Whipsaw
I am a network admin for a call center and i ran into this the other day, One of my computers had its screen flipped upside down. At first i thought virus ( OH NO !!)  but after some reading, this is what i found out :
If its a newer HP model , They gave the option of (ctrl + arrow keys) flipping screen sideways or upside down. I guess so you can hang you monitor upside down although i cant quite figure out why you would do this.    Oh well to each its own.....   fly on

If one needs to wall mount a monitor with one of those heavy duty mounts in like a class room setting I could see maybe flipping the screen, but it would be a rare situation... We wall mount LCD'S to free up desk space...

IKON

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Post by: capt. apathy on September 11, 2004, 06:26:12 PM

my viewsonic lcd monitor came with software to handle rotation, I guess to make your monitor view more like page layout(you can rotate the screen on it's stand as well.

the software is called 'perfectportrait',  if nothing else checks out you might want to check to see if this, or something like it, is running.

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Post by: ozrocker on July 06, 2005, 06:09:10 PM

Ati has a setting to rotate your monitor, rt click icon, settings.
                                                                              Oz

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Post by: Vulcan on July 06, 2005, 08:50:21 PM

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Originally posted by Whipsaw
I am a network admin for a call center and i ran into this the other day, One of my computers had its screen flipped upside down. At first i thought virus ( OH NO !!)  but after some reading, this is what i found out :
If its a newer HP model , They gave the option of (ctrl + arrow keys) flipping screen sideways or upside down. I guess so you can hang you monitor upside down although i cant quite figure out why you would do this.    Oh well to each its own.....   fly on

Its a feature for Southern Hemisphere sites.

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Post by: Fishu on July 06, 2005, 09:01:09 PM

At least Nvidia drivers do give the option to tilt the view.

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Post by: eskimo2 on July 06, 2005, 09:32:40 PM

The command on my school PCs is: Ctrl + Alt + Arrow.
When kids logged on, you can imagine messing up Ctrl + Alt + Delete...

eskimo