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Monitor Upside down and backwards
Name: mackiain Date: December 15, 2005 at 13:24:03 Pacific OS: Win XP Home CPU/Ram: 2.8ghz 512ddr
Comment:
My friends computer monitor has gone upside down and backwards, he was just playing a game and it froze, and when he restarted the display was upside down and backwards, any idea how to fix that problem?
Name: Tufenuf Date: December 15, 2005 at 14:12:17 Pacific
Reply:
mackiain, Press the Ctrl+Alt+upperArrow keys at the same time.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 2
Name: mackiain Date: December 15, 2005 at 18:34:15 Pacific
Reply:
what would that do?
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Response Number 3
Name: Tufenuf Date: December 15, 2005 at 19:38:44 Pacific
Reply:
mackiain, "what would that do?"
It very well may correct your screen problem. Have you tried it?
Tufenuf
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Response Number 4
Name: mackiain Date: December 17, 2005 at 14:14:19 Pacific
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I tried it, it didn't do anything....
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Response Number 5
Name: Tufenuf Date: December 17, 2005 at 14:30:58 Pacific
Reply:
mackiain, Try the Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow or Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow or Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow keys.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 6
Name: mackiain Date: December 18, 2005 at 23:50:59 Pacific
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I did try all those, what is it like a monitor reset command? because its not doing a thing. Thanks though.
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Response Number 7
Name: Tufenuf Date: December 19, 2005 at 10:17:26 Pacific
Reply:
mackiain, Yes some keyboards use those keys as hotkeys to rotate the monitor screen. If you have a Nvidia Video Card try this.
Right click the Desktop, select Properties>Settings>Advanced. See if there is a setting in there to rotate the screen back to normal. If you have Nvidia software installed try clicking on the tab for your graphics card and have a look for NVRotate on the left hand side.
If you do have an Nvidia card there may be an icon in the Notification Area. If so, right click on it, select Rotation Settings and then set it to 0 degrees.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 8
Name: mackiain Date: December 20, 2005 at 22:55:23 Pacific
Reply:
The CNTRL + ALT + UP ARROW Worked perfectly, When I said it didnt before i was telling my friend over the phone and he was pressing the wrong keys (very new to computers). But thanks alot for helping with the problem.
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Response Number 9
Name: Tufenuf Date: December 22, 2005 at 03:53:47 Pacific
Reply:
mackiain, Glad to see that the problem has been corrected & Thanks for posting back to let us know.
Tufenuf
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Response Number 10
Name: marmor Date: January 18, 2006 at 05:13:18 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you, after spending a day with my monitor flipped I decieded to do a google search on the problem. The The CNTRL + ALT + UP ARROW fixed my flipped screen. YEa I am glad that is all it was.
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