SP2

[private]

The installing of SP2 went in ok but it stuffed up my monitor settings.
The screen is only about 2/3 the normal size and only 4 colours.

XP home usually sets up my monitor perfectly on installation.

SP2 stuffs it up..........Now thats progress???????
Now I know how sheep feel when being herded into a pen....

[Greg R]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:05:19 GMT, "private" > wrote:

>The installing of SP2 went in ok but it stuffed up my monitor settings.
>The screen is only about 2/3 the normal size and only 4 colours.
>
>XP home usually sets up my monitor perfectly on installation.
>
>SP2 stuffs it up..........Now thats progress???????
>Now I know how sheep feel when being herded into a pen....
>
Roll back you graphics driver. Xp sp2 updates some graphics drivers.

Greg R

[Rock]

private wrote:

> The installing of SP2 went in ok but it stuffed up my monitor settings.
> The screen is only about 2/3 the normal size and only 4 colours.
>
> XP home usually sets up my monitor perfectly on installation.
>
> SP2 stuffs it up..........Now thats progress???????
> Now I know how sheep feel when being herded into a pen....
>
>

Reinstall the drivers for the video card and monitor. Adjust the screen
size with the monitor controls. Right click on the desktop, choose
properties and make adjustments in there.

[Malke]

private wrote:

> The installing of SP2 went in ok but it stuffed up my monitor
> settings. The screen is only about 2/3 the normal size and only 4
> colours.
>
> XP home usually sets up my monitor perfectly on installation.
>
> SP2 stuffs it up..........Now thats progress???????
> Now I know how sheep feel when being herded into a pen....

Try reinstalling your video card drivers. Use drivers from the device
mftr.'s website, not from Windows Update. If it is too difficult to see
on your system, download the drivers on a working pc and burn to cd-r.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"

[Plato]

private wrote:
>
> The installing of SP2 went in ok but it stuffed up my monitor settings.
> The screen is only about 2/3 the normal size and only 4 colours.
>
> XP home usually sets up my monitor perfectly on installation.
>
> SP2 stuffs it up..........Now thats progress???????
> Now I know how sheep feel when being herded into a pen....

When you upgrade your OS its quite common that you need to also upgrade
some drivers. Perhaps that is the problem.

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:23:13 -0500, Greg R >

>Xp sp2 updates some graphics drivers.

Jeez, *that's* a bad move!



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[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Greg R wrote:
> Roll back you graphics driver. Xp sp2 updates some graphics drivers.
>
> Greg R

Never heard of this happening? I don't think that SP2 will actually update
any graphic drivers simply because there are too many out there that it
would not be aware of. As with any major update, you need to do a manual
update to any incompatible hardware drivers.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

[Greg R]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:17:57 -0700, "Ronnie Vernon MVP"
> wrote:

>Greg R wrote:
>> Roll back you graphics driver. Xp sp2 updates some graphics drivers.
>>
>> Greg R
>
>Never heard of this happening? I don't think that SP2 will actually update
>any graphic drivers simply because there are too many out there that it
>would not be aware of. As with any major update, you need to do a manual
>update to any incompatible hardware drivers.


It did mine. S3 graphics. However, It is working just fine.

Greg R