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re: simple settings, such as screen colors!'
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 2:41 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul Tickle
(1 messages posted)
This might help... All my systems have nVidia cards.
Everytime nVidia issue new drivers I load them up, (not forgetting to uninstall the
old ones first)! and lo and behold, I get the same problem when rebooting i.e. the
screen resolution drops to 800x600 @ 60Hz.
First thing, get rid of the "Default Monitor" anyone who has had a Voodoo card will
know this. Find ANY other type of monitor driver that can be installed (check in
Device Manager) and can stay there - preferably the monitor manufacturers own driver.
Now log on as Administrator, and make sure you have a password. XP can misbehave
if it doesn't have an admin password to play with, don't ask me, ask Bill...
Change your desktop to the required settings, reboot and log on as you would normally.
This has worked for me for all my systems, from an old Aopen MV200 up to the FX5200
I have in my main XP box now It's still a pain in the *rs*, but it works for me,
and so far, all of my students
Give it a shot, and good luck
Paul T
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 3:45 am, John Jarvie wrote:
>I have a question about Screen Resolution in Windows XP. When I go through the boot
>up proceedure the screen appears fine, however when the sequence is finished it
is
>only in 8 bit and very grainy. I resolve this by altering the settings in the control
>panel and I am able to use 16 or 32 bit. and save setting. My problem is, after
I
>shut down and re boot it reverts to 8 bit.
>Look forward to any suggestions.
>
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