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Old May 20th 04, 12:47 AM
ingber
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My Windows Me system has developed a system strange to me. During the
bootup all is normal till the loading of Windows. The most frequent
symptom is a display on the monitor warning that there is a mismatch in
the frequency of the graphics card and that of the monitor. It reports
the horizontal frequency as too high. Nothing can be done from that
point but a restart.

The "solution" has been to boot into safe mode, which does work, and
then to reinstall the NVidia display driver. This is a tiresome process
that must be repeated at each startup. I can not tell whether this is a
hardware problem, perhaps the card or the hard drive storing the file
with an error, or software.

Has anyone run into this and found a diagnosis?

Thanks


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Old May 20th 04, 08:06 AM
Rick T
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ingber wrote:
My Windows Me system has developed a system strange to me. During the
bootup all is normal till the loading of Windows. The most frequent
symptom is a display on the monitor warning that there is a mismatch in
the frequency of the graphics card and that of the monitor. It reports
the horizontal frequency as too high. Nothing can be done from that
point but a restart.

The "solution" has been to boot into safe mode, which does work, and
then to reinstall the NVidia display driver. This is a tiresome process
that must be repeated at each startup. I can not tell whether this is a
hardware problem, perhaps the card or the hard drive storing the file
with an error, or software.


ControlPanel/Display/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/RefreshRate... there are
several choices, Optimal, Default, and possibly some real numbers.
Playing with that might prove helpful.

nVidia utilities might help you set a fixed rate; refer to your graphics
card and monitor's user manual as to what the best rate might be.


Rick
 




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