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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / January 2004Monitor problems
I messed up a win95 system by setting the resolution to 1280x960 in the control panel. Apparently, the monitor or video card can't handle it. When booting up now, the monitor shows the dos text info while loading, but at the time the windows 95 screen should appear the monitor goes completely black. If I boot up with a boot disk, it comes up in the dos mode, but I can't find any way to reset the resolution to 800x600. Any ideas? Joe Tap the F8 key repeatedly during bootup and when the startup menu appears, select "Safe mode". Restore the original resolution, then restart normally. Ben > I messed up a win95 system by setting the resolution to 1280x960 in the > control panel. Apparently, the monitor or video card can't handle it. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Joe > Tap the F8 key repeatedly during bootup and when the startup menu > appears, select "Safe mode". Restore the original resolution, then [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > Joe It worked. Thanks a lot. Been playing with the problem for 2 days. The only real access I could get was with a bootable disk, and thought of trying to edit the system.dat file, but it is 5M in size. Hope I remember the 'safe mode' and the F8 key in the future. Thought for sure I had lost everything. Thanks Ben and Milo for your help. Joe > > Tap the F8 key repeatedly during bootup and when the startup menu > > appears, select "Safe mode". Restore the original resolution, then [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Joe Sorry, that should have been Ben and Philo. Joe > I messed up a win95 system by setting the resolution to 1280x960 in the > control panel. Apparently, the monitor or video card can't handle it. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Joe You can reset the resolution from safe mode when the machine is booting up....right after the bios messages but before windows starts to load..... just hit the F5 key if you miss it...just try again |
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