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800x600 display not available suddenly
Name: Sue Walter Date: June 10, 1999 at 14:31:54 Pacific
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Please help. Using old 14" Aamazing monitor w\emachine. 800x600 resolution worked fine, now I can't get it to work. All I get is distorted multiple split screen with lines. Is there something I missed that I can do to fix this. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.
Tried to change the colors, didn't make a difference. It is Win98, in case that matters. Anything else I'm missing? Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: Bruce Date: June 10, 1999 at 16:30:01 Pacific
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Old monitor. Did you mean it used to run okay on another system but not on Win98? If so, go to the mfg's site and get the latest drivers for it. If you just installed Windows98, you have to change the monitor Model and Video Adapter(driver) in Display/Properties/Advanced, windows won't do it automatically when it installs. Whoops, I just found out that Aamazing is in recievership so you might not get new drivers, so check at Windrivers.com or other download sites.
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Response Number 4
Name: Kevin Switzer Date: June 10, 1999 at 21:14:29 Pacific
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Had a similar problem after downloading and installing some desktop themes from Microplus 98'. None of my dos gurus ever heard of the problem. A ten year old kid told me to go to the display properties in the control panel and change click on advanced tab. Manually slide the bar to the correct screen size and click apply. hope this will fix it for you. Also if you get bad command or file name errors when you log on just delete the autoexec.bat file that they created. Caio
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Response Number 5
Name: ergmiester Date: June 10, 1999 at 21:22:20 Pacific
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This has worked for me a few times- Make a blind boot to safe mode by hiting f8 at the beep then hit 3 and enter. After a few min of hard drive activity safe mode comes up using a special vidio driver and a low resolution that is easy to sync to. Change the resolution to the same as what safe mode uses, reboot and change it back. If that dont work try removeing the vidio card from system (in safe mode) and reboot. Reinstall the drivers.
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Response Number 6
Name: Balrog Date: June 11, 1999 at 12:10:56 Pacific
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Often the refresh rate of your video card will make a difference on how your monitor display's your screen. Especially when wierd wavy lines are concerned .Try booting in Safe Mode, then go to the Display Settings in your Control Panel. Look for Refresh rate. It's probably under the Settings tab. If it says OPTIMAL, change it to ADAPTER DEFAULT. If it gives you a number, like 75 for example, try lowering it a notch to 72 or the next lower one. This might solve your problem.
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Response Number 7
Name: Highlander Date: June 16, 1999 at 12:52:10 Pacific
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Older monitors like that usually don't like a refresh rate over 60 hz. Without knowing which video card you're using, it's hard to say but check your refresh rate in display properties and try it, if that cures it, bring it back up slowly. If you lose it again use safe mode as before to reset it. Good Luck !! Ian (Highlander)
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Response Number 8
Name: curlee brazell Date: May 11, 2000 at 23:26:59 Pacific
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my monitor is doing some strange stuff to it seem to be stuck in a 16 color only i can not adjust it to 265 or higher if i do and restart the darn thing flashes blue then goes black and freezes i have to then go to safe mode i am using the all in wonder video card and my monitor is 15inches 14 visible
We have a similar problem to curlee and Sue. The color choices are 2 and 16 and the screen sizer (pixel-wise) won't change. It's stuck at 640x480. I bought a new computer that automatically installed Win98. I can't get it to recognize my keyboard's special features like sleep and wake nor can I get it to recognize our monitor. Please help us if you can.
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Response Number 10
Name: Fred Harnum Date: August 6, 2000 at 16:09:14 Pacific
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the aamazing monitor has a refresh rate of 60hz
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Response Number 11
Name: Kim Gregory Date: August 31, 2000 at 05:01:35 Pacific
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The win98 driver I am using with my cm-8489gx is the standard win98 SUPER VGA 800 X 600. I experienced the same problem as you if I try to stretch the picture to fill the screen using the adjusting knobs on the bottom of the monitor. If I leave it slightly smaller, I have no problem. Screen setting is 640 x 480, there are no options for refresh rates with this driver.
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