Earlier today, I pulled out my PCI WLAN card to give to someone else to use for a while, now after rebooting [after pulling the card out], I noticed that the resoloution had automatically changed to 800*600, this happened to me on an old monitor, and I changed the resolution back to 1024*768 (it was an old monitor), however, this time I changed to 1280*1024 as this was my previous setting that worked perfectly.

Now it worked OK, but after rebooting that change, a pleasent Philips monitor message greeted me:- "This monitor cannot display this, please chnage to 1280*1024 - 60Hz", the point was that was what the monitor was on, and interestingly, the refresh rate boxed had been greyed out since the change.

I then tried the other monitor (on this machine), and "Out of range" is displayed; at least the Phillips monitor allows it to POST before it complains - as the resolution side of things does'nt kick in until the login box.

I noticed on the slider that 11?* ? was on the slider, the thing is I didn't choose that one, as i knew the monitor couldn't hack it...

Any ideas?

Unless it somehow has got on the 11?*? res.

Cheers,
Alex - :)

If you just want to get it working again, press F8 during boot and select VGA mode (or even safe mode) to let you boot into windows at low res. If you want to know why it's changed, I'm not really sure unless it's some weird plug and play issue! Or you accidentally pulled the graphics card out as well without noticing and it's now using onboard gfx! ;)

1152 x 864 is a standard res, but I've no idea whether a 1280 native-res TFT ought to try and display that or not :) I thought they would usually have a go at any res though, even if it looked naff through interpolation...

It was due for a reformat (was last done Dec. 2004), so I did it and it obviously reset everything and cured it; I suspect it had shifted onto the other res.

Cheers - :)