click advanced then click the vga box and hit ok.


On Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 4:22 pm, Alan wrote:

>Hi Alyssa and fellow sufferers,
>Did anyone work it out a definative answer to this, because my beast has developed 
>the same complaint! 
>I read through the forum replies and there seemed to be no clear cut solution - 
someone 
>suggested that it was the video drivers that were the wrong ones for the system 
but 
>I haven't changed them so why should they suddenly be the wrong ones?
>Can you remember how your problem started (I have Windows 98)? I started my computer 
>and walked away, and when I came back it had switched itself off - the power light 
>was off. When I turned it on again it went into safe mode (come to think of it perhaps 
>the video driver was changed when it went into safe mode?). I turned it off again 
>and it started to open correctly but the display was stuck in 16 colours and 640 
>x 480 size. Whenever I go into settings \ display to change it, it gives me the 
following 
>message ...
>"System Settings Change
>You must restart your computer before the new settings will take effect.
>Do you want to restart your computer now? Y / N"
>
>Maybe that is a clue, because - as I recall - when I changed display settings previously, 
>it would simply ask you something like "Do you like the settings? Y / N" and then 
>the settings were saved.
>
>Getting desperate since I don't want to have to re-instal Windows!
>Regards
>Alan. Downunda

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