Monitor Display has gone wibble

[Bugmeister]

The display on my monitor at home has gone a bit strange. I still have a picture of sorts, but it is very grainy. Pictures show almost as negative images, but are very poor.

Icons etc appear bigger than normal as well. I have checked my monitor settings and they are showing

16 Colours and 640 x 480 pixels.

I have tried changing these around and restarting the computer, but the display doesn't seem to be changing at all.

Any bright ideas will be gratefully received.
Cheers

[wedg1e]

Your PC has lost the drivers for your particular monitor.
You need to go into Control Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced and tell it what kind of monitor you're using. Then it should nip off and find the drivers for it. But it probably won't, and you'll be back on here...

Ian

[dontlift]

wedg1e said:

Your PC has lost the drivers for your particular monitor. You need to go into Control Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced and tell it what kind of monitor you're using. Then it should nip off and find the drivers for it. But it probably won't, and you'll be back on here... Ian

I would have thought it would be the display adapter drivers it has lost not the monitor ones

[simpo two]

Does it say 'safe mode' in the corners? Might be a sign that something else is not happy?

[bugmeister]

It has on occasion said safe mode, but only after machine was switched off rather than shut down. Is curretnly running normally, just teh display that is not right. Will try looking at the drivers mentioned earlier when I get home tonight. Display appeared to have deteriorated further when i logged on last night.

Could it be the graphics card on it's way out, or would that just go?

[simpo two]

bugmeister said:

Could it be the graphics card on it's way out, or would that just go?

It's saying 'Throw me in a skip and get a TFT'

[wedg1e]

dontlift said:

wedg1e said: Your PC has lost the drivers for your particular monitor. You need to go into Control Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced and tell it what kind of monitor you're using. Then it should nip off and find the drivers for it. But it probably won't, and you'll be back on here... Ian I would have thought it would be the display adapter drivers it has lost not the monitor ones

Could be that, too.

Ian

[Bugmeister]

Tried reinstalling drivers, still no luck. If anyone can give me any other hints it would be much appreciated

[andyf007]

Go into Device Manager and delete the graphics adapter(s), then re-start the PC. Chances are it has changed the adapter to the Standard VGA Adapter and therefore it will not accept the drivers you are trying to re-install. When it re-starts it should detect the correct card, then point it to the correct drivers. This is very common under Win95/98. For Win2000, check that it hasn't simply disabled the graphics card.

Andy

[dontlift]

Bugmeister said:

Tried reinstalling drivers, still no luck. If anyone can give me any other hints it would be much appreciated

Try doing what most of my customers do in this situation.

1. Open Control Panel and change every setting you can find including those for the network card, stop all the service manually and disable them etc

2. Remove back of PC and fiddle around inside

3. Switch on PC and be very surprised when it doesnt work anymore

4. Phone me and rant that your PC is knackered, no longer sees the network (because you changed the subnet mask) - cd drive doesnt work (because you pulled the cable out) etc etc etc.

Sorry - having a bad day and couldnt resist

[bugmeister]

dontlift said:

Bugmeister said: Tried reinstalling drivers, still no luck. If anyone can give me any other hints it would be much appreciated Try doing what most of my customers do in this situation. 1. Open Control Panel and change every setting you can find including those for the network card, stop all the service manually and disable them etc 2. Remove back of PC and fiddle around inside 3. Switch on PC and be very surprised when it doesnt work anymore 4. Phone me and rant that your PC is knackered, no longer sees the network (because you changed the subnet mask) - cd drive doesnt work (because you pulled the cable out) etc etc etc. Sorry - having a bad day and couldnt resist

1) Done that, but made a note of what I changed and reset them after

2) Done that as well

3) Done that, so repeated 2 and found a plug I had knocked out. PC works again, but graphics still fued

4) Phoned expert who now has PC and told me I should have it back tomorrow.