bought a dell 20.1 lcd wide screen, hooked it up yesterday
just got my geforce fx5500 video card today
after the install booted up my computer
started up fine
icons were huge though and I could not see my task bar
I tried to adjust anything I could think of
even when I hit the start button that would not come up
I restarted the computer, it went through the first few screens ok
but then just became black, desk top would not show up
I switch the monitor cable back to my old video card and the desk top appeared with no problems
You need to start the computer in safe mode so that you can adjust the display settings to a default level. You enter safe mode by pressing F8 before Windows boots up. Once in safe mode. Right click on the desktop, click on settings, adjust the screen resolution to 800*600. This should allow you to restart the computer with basic screen resolution settings with the new video card and monitor, and slowly adjust the settings to your liking.
Using your old video card, download and install the new driver for your new video card. Then install your new video card. Usually this takes care of issues.
You need to start the computer in safe mode so that you can adjust the display settings to a default level. You enter safe mode by pressing F8 before Windows boots up. Once in safe mode. Right click on the desktop, click on settings, adjust the screen resolution to 800*600. This should allow you to restart the computer with basic screen resolution settings with the new video card and monitor, and slowly adjust the settings to your liking.
If this doesn't work, go into the display properties again, under advance settings, monitor, and lower the refresh rate of the monitor. One of these should do the trick.
Sounds like you need a mac! But for those windows users i still have some sympathy...
Sounds like a resolution issue to me, like what was being said before, make sure you have the right drivers installed. Also, when the device is installed, and you reboot the computer, dont go crazy with the resolution settings until you know it works. Sometimes the monitor cannot support some resolutions and/or refresh rates which cause them to flip out.
Also, i do not recall, but there may be a setting in your BIOS which lets you pick which display adapter is the default device. If not in the bios, you can set that up in Windows (im assuming you are using Windows XP).
Or....just get a mac...its pretty much plug and play...any monitor, any tv..hehe
I found the older drivers, removed those
messed with the resolution in safe mode
restarted
seems to be working good again
love this new wide screen monitor
But you can't change everything in a Mac. I can buy some parts tomorrow and make a completely different and new PC. I would have to buy another Mac, more flexibility with a PC.
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