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Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480

Original Message

Name: Anon111
Date: May 15, 2006 at 21:06:24 Pacific
Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480
OS: Windows ME
CPU/Ram: 112mb

Comment:

Hi Guys,need some help
Problem - My display keeps going back to 640X480 and i'm unable to change it. I checked my System.ini file and in the boot section i couldnt find drivers=mmsystem.dll so i added that and also shell=explorer.exe was missing from the boot section, which i also added.
But after i restart i am still unable to change from 640X480 to 800X600.
Now the icons on my desktop and really big and grainy.
this is what the boot section in my system.ini file looks like now
[boot]
*DisplayFallback=0
SCRNSAVE.EXE=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SCROLL~1.SCR
drivers=mmsystem.dll
shell=Explorer.exe
Please help me fix this, Thanks.

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Response Number 1

Name: Ray Peate
Date: May 16, 2006 at 00:08:56 Pacific
Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480

Reply: (edit)

It seems you need to reinstall your video card drivers - do you still have the original disk???

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Response Number 2

Name: jam
Date: May 16, 2006 at 08:59:28 Pacific
Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480

Reply: (edit)

yep, you need to reinstall your video drivers

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Response Number 3

Name: win98se
Date: May 16, 2006 at 23:24:32 Pacific
Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480

Reply: (edit)

Video Card Drivers will need to be re installed.

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Response Number 4

Name: jboy
Date: May 16, 2006 at 23:44:47 Pacific
Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480

Reply: (edit)

OR (to take things in a different direction)... maybe you need to reinstall your video drivers
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Response Number 5

Name: Ghostman 1
Date: May 17, 2006 at 08:14:50 Pacific
Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480

Reply: (edit)

You need to download a program called everest or Belarc, it is an identifier.. it will tell you what video adapter you have and then you can get the right driver for that adapter.

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Response Number 6

Name: jboy
Date: May 17, 2006 at 16:36:50 Pacific
Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480

Reply: (edit)

Considering that this is a new occurence, then the proper drivers must have already been installed prior to this incident - either the system has 'lost' that configuration or else those drivers have become corrupted
Device Manager may provide some clues
All this mucking about with INI files is pointless
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Response Number 7

Name: Nick Ritchie
Date: May 20, 2006 at 08:16:13 Pacific
Subject: Cant Change display from 640X480

Reply: (edit)

Hasve you considered a system restore ? Unless you disabled this utility, it may correct the problem ?
Good Luck Nick

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