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by msc

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I have unfortunatly suffered a graphics card resolution change which has renedered my NT workstation system unusable. At boot up the blue screen appears but where the windows logo should be I have a sync out of range message from my monitor and the pc appears to carry on booting. Could anyone tell me how to recover from this problem? unfortunatly I do not have a good ERD disk to restore the registry key from. I am running nt 4 workstation and have service pack 5 installed, the pc is a dell dimension l466c

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by boneil

When booting, go to the VGA mode option of the boot.ini loader. Log in and reconfigure the display to what it used to be, or replace the drivers with standard vga.

by dc1

Have you tried using the Last Known Good config yet or try booting up in VGA mode and changing the graphics setting.

by joetech3

If you have set the timeout option to zero and are in a network situation, boot to the c$ share of the pc and edit the timeout value of the boot loader segment of the boot.ini file to 5 or 10. Reboot the PC. The VGA option will then appear.

by joetech3

If you have set the timeout option to zero and are in a network situation, UNC to the c$ share of the pc and edit the timeout value of the boot loader segment of the boot.ini file to 5 or 10. Reboot the PC. The VGA option will then appear.

by chuck s.

Restart the computer and select VGA Mode. Log on as a user with administrator priviledges and go to Display Properties. Set the resolution, colors, and refresh frequency that are acceptable for the monitor and restart.

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