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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: HakanH on May 11, 2002, 03:39:32 AM
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2 weeks ago I went to a friends house and formatted harddrive and reinstalled win98se and all his programs including AH.
I also installed a new GF2 Pro 64 graphicscard.
It has worked perfect since then until yesterday.
All of a sudden the monitors resolution had changed back to 800x600 from 1024x768. When I try to change it back I get a message saying something like:
"Cant change monitorsettings. Check hardware for monitor in devicemanager."
I have done this and it looks like it always has. It says device is working.
I have reinstalled drivers for monitor, I have reinstalled drivers for graphicscard, I have downloaded latest drivers from nvidia.com and I have also reinstalled windows. Nothing works, still get the same error.
Can someone please help me with this one?
His computer is an old AMD 700 Mhz, motherboard is GigaByte(I think), GF2 Pro 64, 256 Mb ram, 20gb IBM hd
Goofy
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Two things:
1) nothing changes on it's own. Your friend installed "something".
2) Windows has problems writing to or deleting files that are in use, such as video drivers. The best way to solve problems like this is to boot to safe mode, and *then* remove the item from device manager. Windows loads it's own, basic drivers in safe mode, allowing you to get rid of and clean out the old, "real" drivers. You'll be surprised how often you see double items (such as two monitors or screen cards) in safe mood, because all the "half" or failed installations show up. Remove them all, and let windows find the item again on reboot, then install the drivers.
If your confident enough, it's also worth searching through the registry and removing any references to the hardware in question whilst you're in safe mode. A word of warning though, screwing up the registry will mean a full system re-install, so make a back up, and make sure you know how to use the backed up registry files.
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Two things:
1) nothing changes on it's own. Your friend installed "something".
2) Windows has problems writing to or deleting files that are in use, such as video drivers. The best way to solve problems like this is to boot to safe mode, and *then* remove the item from device manager. Windows loads it's own, basic drivers in safe mode, allowing you to get rid of and clean out the old, "real" drivers. You'll be surprised how often you see double items (such as two monitors or screen cards) in safe mood, because all the "half" or failed installations show up. Remove them all, and let windows find the item again on reboot, then install the drivers.
If your confident enough, it's also worth searching through the registry and removing any references to the hardware in question whilst you're in safe mode. A word of warning though, screwing up the registry will mean a full system re-install, so make a back up, and make sure you know how to use the backed up registry files.
And it's often a good idea to re-instal direct-X after messing with drivers.
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Thx Seeker, I will give this a try now
Goofy
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tried it all, still got the same problem:-(
Anyone??
Goofy
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does the monitor show correctly in device manager??
or does it show default monitor?
SKurj
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monitor shows correctly
Goofy