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Changing resolutions in Windows... From Linux [SOLVED]

LorkLork Registered User regular
edited March 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
My monitor just died and I don't have enough money to buy another one at the moment.

The good news: I have an ancient monitor that goes with a 386/DX I have in the closet and I was able to get up and running at 640x480 in Ubuntu Linux.

The bad news: Some setting in Windows XP is too high for this monitor, even in safe mode. I suspect it's trying to run at 800x600, but I can't be sure that the refresh rate or something else isn't what's too high. One thing that might complicate things a bit is that my Windows partition is NTFS.

So is there anything I can do about this?

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    TechnicalityTechnicality Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    You get the bios though right? When exactly does it all go blank?

    My guess is resolution settings are in the registry somewhere.

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    Patches7o9Patches7o9 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Press F8 during boot, then choose Enable VGA mode.
    Enable VGA Mode: This option starts Windows in 640 x 480 mode by using the current video driver (not Vga.sys). This mode is useful if the display is configured for a setting that the monitor cannot display.

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    LorkLork Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I managed to borrow a monitor from a friend which is working very nicely, but now I have a new problem. When I tried VGA mode, it caused a BSOD right after the login screen which persists when I try to start Windows normally or in safe mode. Hap! Hap!

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    Patches7o9Patches7o9 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    If you constantly getting a BSOD try booting off a Windows install disc, go to Recovery Console and run "chkdsk /r".

    I dunno, it fixes most of the problems I have at work. :)

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    LorkLork Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Patches7o9 wrote: »
    If you constantly getting a BSOD try booting off a Windows install disc, go to Recovery Console and run "chkdsk /r".

    I dunno, it fixes most of the problems I have at work. :)
    Chkdsk froze at 50%, but apparently it solved the problem because I'm posting from Windows. Thanks!

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