Black screen ...

[Tom]

Hello,
The person who serviced my PC altered the graphical mode in such way
that I am unable to run it with my monitor, Windows produces the
invitation panel (and I suppose it runs correctly thereafter) but the
screen turns black subsequently. Everything is fine except that I
cannot see anything. :-)

Is there some clever way of changing the video mode under these
circumstances?

Thank you very much.
Tom

P.S. The power is on. ;-)

[Graham Hughes]

When starting the pc, press the same button you would to get into safe mode,
F5/F8???
Then you should have an option to start in vga mode, use this and hopefully
you'll be able to compute once again.
Graham

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"Tom" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Hello,
> The person who serviced my PC altered the graphical mode in such way
> that I am unable to run it with my monitor, Windows produces the
> invitation panel (and I suppose it runs correctly thereafter) but the
> screen turns black subsequently. Everything is fine except that I
> cannot see anything. :-)
>
> Is there some clever way of changing the video mode under these
> circumstances?
>
> Thank you very much.
> Tom
>
> P.S. The power is on. ;-)
>

[Tom]

Graham Hughes wrote:
When starting the pc, press the same button you would to get into safe
mode,
F5/F8???
Then you should have an option to start in vga mode, use this and
hopefully
you'll be able to compute once again.

Great! Thank you.

It's more fun to compute.
-- Kraftwerk, Computerwelt

Kindest regards,
Tom


>
> --
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
> www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
> www.dvds2treasure.com
> www.simplydv.com
>
>
> "Tom" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
> > Hello,
> > The person who serviced my PC altered the graphical mode in such way
> > that I am unable to run it with my monitor, Windows produces the
> > invitation panel (and I suppose it runs correctly thereafter) but the
> > screen turns black subsequently. Everything is fine except that I
> > cannot see anything. :-)
> >
> > Is there some clever way of changing the video mode under these
> > circumstances?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> > Tom
> >
> > P.S. The power is on. ;-)
> >