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Screen Area Stuck

Started by vicious , Mar 25 2004 11:01 PM

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vicious

Posted 25 March 2004 - 11:01 PM

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Hi, I'm in a little trouble. I changed the screen area size in the display properties toolbar in XP. I changed it all the way to the right. Then after i clicked OK the monitor just went to idle and the it says "Frequency Over Range". So i tried plugging another monitor in but was once again unsuccessful. Please help me find out how to get it back to normal.
Thanks

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Smokey

Posted 26 March 2004 - 03:50 PM

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Welcome vicious

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Your problem has an easy fix. You will need to reboot your system in safe mode. When you restart, at the first screen you see, press F8. Then choose safe mode. You will then be able to log into windows. Once there, go back to the display properties and change the frequency range to a safe number. For 15" monitor, the max is 1024x768, for 17", the resolution max is 1280x1024. Then restart and the new screen resolutions will be applied <_<

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For some reason if that doesn't work, go back into safe mode and do a system restore to before you changed your screen resolution. Windows will automatically set it's screen resolution to it's previous value. Just restart in normal mode and the system will be back to normal