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by dogspro

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My friend has a high resolution monitor(will only work at 1280x1024) Some of the game cd's she puts in will change the resolution automatically and kick the monitor to a blank screen. Is there anything she can do to keep this from happening? It isgetting to be a pain for her to lug her tower to my house to change the resolution back. thanks

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by thechas

1. Make sure that the correct video card and monitor drivers are installed.

2. In the settings section of display properties there should be an option for applying display setting changes.
Make sure that this is set to require confirmation of changes.

3. Set up a hotkey that she can use to change the resolution back to her standard setting.

Chas

by opatzg9

what kind of a monitor is it that it will only accept 1280X1024? Most games run in 800X600 or 640X480, a few will go beyond that but I wasn't aware of a monitor which didn't support those? As chas stated the right monitor driver and video card driver should clear up the blank page. Is this an AGP card? Has the AGP card slot drivers been updated for the motherboard?
Good luck

by deroode

Next time you lug your monitor to *her* house. Don't let the lady do the hard work..;-)

by patternflyer

Is your friend using the HP or Sony monitor that only works with the specific card and fixed resolution? I have seen several of my friends buying those from auctions. Those never worked on other resolutions.

Check the setup utilities of the games to see if there is an option to keep the current screen resolution or "Do not change display size or resolution". Some games do have this options.

If those games don't have the above,
1. uninstall them.
2. replace the monitor. (if the graphic card supports more than one resolution. I think it doesn't)
3. replace graphic board with monitor (only if they must have each other to work correctly).

Her choice!!

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