My employee, in his infinite wisdom, made a change in "Control Panel, Display, Settings, Refresh Frequency" (he thinks). Now the screen is a bunch of moving lines, very nauseateating. Can I do something from the main PC to change the setting back to the original 60 hz? WinNT 4.0 sp5 Peer to peer network.

Yes, just reboot the machine, there is an option everytime that when you reboot or turn your machine on that allows you to select 1) NT Workstation...... 2) NT Workstation with VGA just pick 2) and you will be fine.... reboot and look at the screen carefully.... tell me what happens otherwise I can tell you something else to try

On this particular machine, there is no option for VGA. There is the Last Known good menu option. More info about the problem: the reboot is fine until the screen after the blue one, the green screen where the log on is. At this green screen the lines then start. Please help.

Okay, you then have to make an NT boot disk. With this you can change your boot.ini file to allow for VGA at boot up ...I forgot how to make a boot disk get back to you in a few. Try to find out how to make a boot disk too

To create a boot diskette you must have access to the i386 directory located on your Windows NT CD or possibly your Hard disk drive. Format the floppy diskette you wish to make a bootable Windows NT boot disk using the Windows NT machine. Copy boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr to the floppy diskette just formatted. If you are using any SCSI devices which you need access to you will also need to load these drivers onto the diskette

Just want to do everything correctly: I copied the three files on a reformated disk. Do I go to the PC and insert the disk and then start the PC and the option will come up? Thanks.

Well first of all go to another computer and use notepad to open up boot.ini and tell me what is on it .... Here is a sample: [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos [boot loader] Timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT