From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 18:13:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6D237B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.m3-d.com (mail.m3-d.com [66.136.220.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA4543E42 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@m3designinc.com) Received: from [66.136.220.155] (helo=dell06) by mail.m3-d.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17ZzMJ-0007H0-01; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:42:11 +0000 From: "Jerry Dunham" To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:11:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: [OT] WinNT monitor change problem Cc: Andrew Gosling , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3D484454.9689.737D613E@localhost> In-reply-to: <200208010040.g710eWL86277@tierzero.apana.org.au> References: <3D4828C8.3800.7311C574@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 Aug 2002, at 10:16, Brian Astill wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:43, Jerry Dunham wrote: > > On 31 Jul 2002, at 18:53, Andrew Gosling wrote: > >> F8 on startup, select safe mode, change settings and restart. > >> > >> I think XP has 800x600 as it's lowest res, so if your monitor can't > >> handle that, your screwed. > > Sorry I gave the impression that I was using XP. > I am actually using WinNT4 (SP6a). VGA mode will NOT allow me to change the > refresh rate - "hardware default refresh" is all I can have. Today, I let > WinBlows use "standard VGA adaptor" and this has given me a readable screen - > 640x480 16 colours is the best I am allowed regardless of the driver I > install from the CD (sigh). > I guess it is a registry problem? Maybe? Or just Win rubbish behaviour? > In this situation I am not confident that even putting the 17" monitor back > would help. Oh dear! I believe that going back to the original monitor will help, assuming that you also have the original video card and haven't uninstalled the video driver. -- Jerry Dunham M3 Design, Inc. jdunham@m3designinc.com (512) 218-8858 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message