[jyank]

So, last night some how (thinking the work of my sister) my resolution on 2k got changed to something my monitor can't handle. When booting up to windows the screen turns black and in my monitors text is says "75 / 60 - frequency out of range, try other resolutions" after about 10 seconds of being there, the PC will restart.

My first reaction was "meh, I can just boot into safe mode and fix this" Nope, in safe mode it won't let me change any option for my video card. Only thing it will show is the VGA adapter. It also doesn't have any options for different refresh rates other than "default". After this I uninstalled my video card and re-installed the driver, hoping that it would change it back to some default at like 800x600. This did not work either, I still got the black screen after uninstalling and re-installing. I tried updating the driver as well, but again that didn't work

I opened my PC and checked to make sure it was securely in, and it is - its something with the settings in windows for the montior because right now I'm running on Linux and its working just fine. What I was hoping to find, is some way to change this in the registry or something.. because I can't seem to get it to work any other way - I've even tried right clicking and trying to randomly try and get to the resolution screen at the desktop, but the PC would restart before I could finish.

So, any idea how I can get rid of this annoying problem?

PC specs just incase

mobo-ASUS A7N8X
Athlon XP 2400+
Radeon 9800pro
gig of ram

monitor is a mag innovision 19inch CRT (not sure of the exact model)

Thanks

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you should be able to do this from safe mode. control panel, display. settings tab, click advanced button. monitor tab. turn your refresh rate back down to 60 hz.

[audioboy]

you should be able to do this from safe mode. control panel, display. settings tab, click advanced button. monitor tab. turn your refresh rate back down to 60 hz.