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Asked on 1/9/2002, 9:28

One of my kids changed the
settings on my monitor and now everything is way off. i have tried
eveything in the display setting!!! I dont know the name of my
monitor, and the book for ity only says multiscan color. i have a 14'
and right now the settings are on for the adapter on standard vga,
and for monitor it is on standard vga 640-480, 16 bit color.(i also
tried putting the setting on super vga0 now the problem is everything
is soo big, and the color is very weird.I hope im making sense here,
its hard to explain, i hope someone can help before i throw this
puter and kids out the window. lol

Reply Posted on 2/9/2002

It is a possibility that degausing the monitor will help - if a magnet etc has been put near the monitor then it usually causes the image to be off centre. There should be a button to degause (but some are unable to do this.)
Or, go through control pannel, display, settings, advanced and make sure the correct monitor is selected and the drivers are there. Usually, if though control pannel, you go to system, device manager and click the properties of your monitor, it will tell you the name and other details about it. When you get these try visiting the manufacturer's website (either search on a search engine or maybe try and find it eLinks at http://www.helpforce.com/main/elinks.html) Then, try to download the most upto date drivers (this may reset the settings), search for an FAQ about it or even contact them. If you have tried almost everything you can think of, then its possible that the problem is specific to that type of monitor and the manufacturer will know how to fix it.

Reply Posted on 6/9/2002

Hi Chris:

Try the following...

Right click on a clear area of your desktop.
Traverse the menu that has appeared and left click on "properties"
On the dialog box, left click on the "appearance" tab

Left click on the "color scheme" or "scheme"
and choose windows standard. It may have been set to windows large or windows extra large.

Click on the "font" drop down box, set it to normal.

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