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Video Mode not supported - help
I was trying to help a friend out with their Windows ME
system on a Presario 5000 with a Samsung monitor. I went into the display settings to change the mode. When I did, it immediately displayed "Video Mode not supported", and started dancing across the screen. I powered off the machine and this is what I get upon boot up. I tried getting into Safe Mode by holding down the CTRL key upon boot up and it would'nt go into Safe mode. She can not find her original ME cd. What can I do to get the system up to Standard VGA and change the video properties back to what it was before. Feeling pretty stupid, hey I'm an XP guy not an ME guy. Ed |
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-----Original Message----- Try tapping F8 after the POST screen and before Win Me starts to get into the Start Menu if Ctrl doesn't work. If you still cannot get into Safe Mode and are happy at working in DOS, boot to a DOS prompt using a boot floppy and use EDIT to edit the file MSDOS.SYS which is in the root of C: and add BootMenu=1 in the section [Options] This will then automatically display the boot menu when starting Win Me. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004] Ed wrote: I was trying to help a friend out with their Windows ME system on a Presario 5000 with a Samsung monitor. I went into the display settings to change the mode. When I did, it immediately displayed "Video Mode not supported", and started dancing across the screen. I powered off the machine and this is what I get upon boot up. I tried getting into Safe Mode by holding down the CTRL key upon boot up and it would'nt go into Safe mode. She can not find her original ME cd. What can I do to get the system up to Standard VGA and change the video properties back to what it was before. Feeling pretty stupid, hey I'm an XP guy not an ME guy. Ed . Thanks Mike, hopefully F8 has'nt been disabled on the system, and it will work... If not there's always good ol DOS. |
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