Hi, I was sitting at my PC lastnight when the display suddenly went sideways. That is, the monitor has to be turned 90 degrees onto its side in order for me to read the monitor correctly. At the time that this error occured, I wasn't pressing any keys. When I rebooted the machine the display is correct while the Windows XP startup motif is displayed, then the screen goes black and the mouse arrow appears sideways. From this point on all is displayed sideways. After I rebooted the machine for the first time, I got the following error report - "Unexpected Shutdown" "The driver for the display was unable to complete an operation Please check with driver vendor for a driver update, The display driver for Intel(R) 82845G Graphics contoller seems to be responable for the system instability." Eveything else seems to be working as normal. I went onto the Intel driver update page to get a newer driver but the following warning is displayed with the driver - "Installs drivers for the integrated graphics controller of Intel® chipsets. This is not to be used if the system has a third party graphics card." http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=865&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Home+Edition〈=eng&strOSs=45&submit=Go%21 Should I install this driver? I'm not sure what my Graphics card is. AHA! I was just looking under control panel for a clue as to my Graphics card when I clicked on "Intel Extreme Graphics". Under this there was a choice to change rotation, and under this the rotation was set to 270. I've changed it to normal and the display seems OK now. I might as well post this anyway in case someone else has a similar problem. Cheers, Barry. I was also given the following watchdog report : // // Watchdog Event Log File // LogType: Watchdog Created: 2005-11-21 10:15:52 TimeZone: 0 - GMT Standard Time WindowsVersion: XP EventType: 0xEA - Thread Stuck in Device Driver // // The driver for the display device got stuck in an infinite loop. This // usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device // driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your // display device vendor for any driver updates. // ShutdownCount: 783 Shutdown: 0 EaRecovery: 1 EventCount: 41 BreakCount: 41 BugcheckTriggered: 1 DebuggerNotPresent: 1 DriverName: ialmrnt5 EventFlag: 1 DeviceClass: Display DeviceDescription: Intel(R) 82845G Graphics Controller HardwareID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2562&SUBSYS_10031734&REV_01 Manufacturer: Intel Corporation DriverFixedFileInfo: FEEF04BD 00010000 0006000D 00010C85 0006000D 00010C85 0000003F 00000000 00040004 00000003 00000004 00000000 00000000 DriverCompanyName: Intel Corporation DriverFileDescription: Controller Hub for Intel Graphics Driver DriverFileVersion: 6.13.01.3205 DriverInternalName: imdispdrv.dll DriverLegalCopyright: Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Intel Corporation. DriverOriginalFilename: imdispdrv.dll DriverProductName: Intel Graphics Accelerator Drivers for Windows NT(R) DriverProductVersion: 6.13.01.3205

ctrl-alt(maybe shift) arrow key ought to rotate it. I think it is the right hand side too. If on a domain you have to be logged in.