"cowpoke" wrote in message
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Get a screen which displays:

Out of frequency
HF 83
VF 159
Operating Frequency
HF 30-70
VF 50-160
Power Management (Starts counting down from 20)

At the count down of 15, the system shuts down for about 30 seconds and
then
does a reboot which takes it to the screen with the options of " Start
Windows Normally, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, etc"

If I select "Start Windows Normally" I get the "Out of Frequency" screen
and
repeat the above.

At this point I started in Safe Mode, did a system restore to remove SP2,
and disabled Window's automatic updates to get back up and running.

Computer Specs: Abit VT7 motherboard, P4 2.4 GHz, ATI Radion Video card

Tried searching the knowledge base for "Out of Frequency" but got nothing
that seems to apply to this problem.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks for any and all help.

Claude

Personally I've only seen a message like "Out of Frequency" being displayed
by a monitor - not XP. It may be that XP is intelligent enough to know that
a monitor can't display at a given horizontal/vertical frequency, but I
don't know. Assuming it is related to the monitor (which the information you
provided would seem to indicate) then the monitor isn't capable of
displaying the current display mode, in which case:

Operating Frequency
HF 30-70
VF 50-160

is what the monitor will support - horizontal frequency and vertical
frequency, and

HF 83
VF 159

is what the current display mode requires. Why installing SP2 should change
your display mode beats me.

I would suggest starting up in safe mode and then selecting a suitable
screen resolution and then rebooting.

Hope this helps,

Brian.

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