Screen Resolution Won't Change

[Tom Pinto]

Hello,

I have a strange problem with screen resolution.

Background: An old machine with a 20gb hard drive has been cloned to a new
80gb partition.
After activation with Microsoft and installing every update, the new machine
boots fine. Only
this video problem.

So, here's the problem. We've tried different video cards, as well as the
NVidia built in to the new
motherboard. They all exhibit the same behavior. When you select a new
resolution, windows
does not change the screen size or color depth. Its always 640x480, 16 bit
color. It looks like
its going to change. I see the your desktop settings have been changed
message for 15 seconds.

I need this machine because we have some programs and data which can not be
re-installed. Is there
anyway to repair the video in XP. It seems something is corrupt in the
windows xp environment. Registry
fix, regsvr32, any ideas???

TP

[Rich Barry]

Tom, what about the Monitor Drivers. Did you move from a CRT to a LCD?

"Tom Pinto" > wrote in message
...
> Hello,
>
> I have a strange problem with screen resolution.
>
> Background: An old machine with a 20gb hard drive has been cloned to a
> new 80gb partition.
> After activation with Microsoft and installing every update, the new
> machine boots fine. Only
> this video problem.
>
> So, here's the problem. We've tried different video cards, as well as the
> NVidia built in to the new
> motherboard. They all exhibit the same behavior. When you select a new
> resolution, windows
> does not change the screen size or color depth. Its always 640x480, 16
> bit color. It looks like
> its going to change. I see the your desktop settings have been changed
> message for 15 seconds.
>
> I need this machine because we have some programs and data which can not
> be re-installed. Is there
> anyway to repair the video in XP. It seems something is corrupt in the
> windows xp environment. Registry
> fix, regsvr32, any ideas???
>
> TP

[Ryan Weeman]

"Tom Pinto" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a strange problem with screen resolution.
>
> Background: An old machine with a 20gb hard drive has been cloned to a new
> 80gb partition.
> After activation with Microsoft and installing every update, the new machine
> boots fine. Only
> this video problem.
>
> So, here's the problem. We've tried different video cards, as well as the
> NVidia built in to the new
> motherboard. They all exhibit the same behavior. When you select a new
> resolution, windows
> does not change the screen size or color depth. Its always 640x480, 16 bit
> color. It looks like
> its going to change. I see the your desktop settings have been changed
> message for 15 seconds.
>
> I need this machine because we have some programs and data which can not be
> re-installed. Is there
> anyway to repair the video in XP. It seems something is corrupt in the
> windows xp environment. Registry
> fix, regsvr32, any ideas???
>
> TP
>



I am having the same problem as u were and cannot fix it either.. :(