Okay guys I need some help. One of my users was playing with the refresh rate on her monitor and now it displays "monitor out of range". No matter what I do, it displays that. I even tried to boot into safe-mode to change it, but it still says the same thing, so I can't see anything in safe-mode either. Windows 2000 is also installed on the computer and will boot normally. Is there anyway I can go through 2000 to change the settings for Win ME?? I really need some help here. Thanks everyone!

you could try using scanreg /restore from a Windows ME boot disk Registry Help

Brian can't help. but I'm a little perplexed as to why it's doing it in safe mode. the reason I say this is. in safe mode it doesn't load your original display driver and sets it to 640x480, 16 color, single monitor, default refresh rate. it slips my memory right now but, in the win.ini should be a setting for resolution and refresh rate i believe. good luck

I had the same problem on an older IBM tower and had to upgrade the video driver it has worked fine since.

Brian, Seen this one before with one of my users too - he had screwed around with the resolution not realising that the refresh rate he selected was out of range of the monitor's capabilities. You need to boot it up from a bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com if you don't have one to hand) then do a SCANREG /RESTORE as response number 1 says above. Then Reboot. This should get the machine started and you can then set the resolution to something that works ok. You can prevent users from messing up these things by using "Registry Robot" which can lock down user access to all sorts of things. I think you can get this from www.webattack.com - just do a search for it there. If you still can't get it going, change the boot order in the bios so the pc boots from CD ROM first, take the option to start the pc with CD ROM support then when it's started up check the registry for display properties and reset from there. Remember to reset the boot order of the BIOS afterwards. Hope this helps - most of the above should be acurate but to be honest I use NT at work so the methods should not be that different. Hope this helps, Mark