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Old April 6th 09, 05:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
Tom Pinto
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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

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Old April 7th 09, 02:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
Rich Barry
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Default Screen Resolution Won't Change

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

"Tom Pinto" wrote in message
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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



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Old May 6th 09, 09:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
Ryan Weeman
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Default Screen Resolution Won't Change



"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..
 




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