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Resolution Reset on Startup
I also have a similar problem with my Sony Vaio. My laptop monitor works
fine but my externally connected monitor keeps changing screen resolution on it on. Sometimes I can reset it to the resolution that I want. However, sometimes my resolution isn't even available to select. This was happening most of the time when I resumed from the photo screen saver so I quit using that. Now I just have the problem if I restart the computer. So far the only work around is to leave the computer on all the time. So much for saving energy. But the only alternative is to spend sometimes 20 to 30 minutes trying to reset the screen resolution after a restart. Seems to be some kind of bug with Vista not saving the current screen resolution on an external monitor. Tried disabling TMM which seemed to be causing similar problems to other machines with no external monitor but that didn't help mine. "Telford" wrote: I've got the same problem with an Acer SA90. It's set for 1440 x 900 but about one time in 20 it comes up in a lower resolution. I have to restart the computer to cure it, just logging out and back in again doesn't help, and I have to make sure I don't do anything much first otherwise all my icons get moved about by it. -- Telford |
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Resolution Reset on Startup
Today I decided I'd try and install XP onto a partition on my drive and to say the least everything went wrong. Anyway when i got back to vista the res kept resetting on start up. So i tried everything even re installed drivers. I eventually decided that it had to be a start up problem and so I checked out the system config window (Run msconfig). Under the boot tab there is an option called base video which was checked. Evidently this option is not supposed to be checked because as soon as I unchecked it and restarted my system I stopped having the issue. Hope this helps! -- RattleheadNI Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Resolution Reset on Startup
i fixed it by acessing the winRE and running start up repair. then booted into windows, adjusted the resolution one more time and restart. after that, every restart holds the settings as they should be. -- motarola2 |
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Resolution Reset on Startup
Hi all, Relating the problem where Vista resets the video resolution to 640 x 480 upon start-up. I found a solution. From my own experience (I faced the exact same problem) I thought I could blame it on hardware, driver etc. I recently upgraded to a new graphics card and wanted to blame NVidia... After some investigation I found that there is an option in the "msconfig" Windows tool, under Boot, called "Base video". This should be unticked!!! The function of this "Base video" is to boot with minimum VGA recources. Hence a LOW resolution. I unticked it and problem vanished. Regards Q -- ltz_Raptor Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Resolution Reset on Startup
Thanks for posting back with the solution!
"ltz_Raptor" wrote in message ... Hi all, Relating the problem where Vista resets the video resolution to 640 x 480 upon start-up. I found a solution. From my own experience (I faced the exact same problem) I thought I could blame it on hardware, driver etc. I recently upgraded to a new graphics card and wanted to blame NVidia... After some investigation I found that there is an option in the "msconfig" Windows tool, under Boot, called "Base video". This should be unticked!!! The function of this "Base video" is to boot with minimum VGA recources. Hence a LOW resolution. I unticked it and problem vanished. Regards Q -- ltz_Raptor Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Resolution Reset on Startup
I have a friend who kept having this problem and we kept resetting the display settings. I finally found this solution on www.askmetafilter.com: I had the same problem, and according to my googling, so have many, many others. Dell tech support was sure that installing new drivers would fix it (it didn't), others have suggested switching the resolution of your wallpaper image to match the screen's native resolution. That doesn't work either. Nor does switching to a blank screensaver (another web suggestion). The actual culprit is TMM, Vista's process that looks for multiple monitors and attempts to intelligently modify resolution. If you aren't using multiple monitors, you can disable TMM: 1. right-click on 'computer' and select 'manage' 2. on the left pane, expand 'task scheduler' then ' task scheduler library' then 'Microsoft' then 'Windows' then 'MobilePC' 3. select TMM in the center pane, then on the right pane, choose 'disable' Now you should be able to close your laptop, let it go to sleep and when it wakes up it will still be in your preferred resolution (also, the screen won't go blank for a second right after waking up) I'm not sure if you will have to also disable it for future windows sessions (maybe in the 'triggers' tab on the bottom of the center pane). It seems to have worked for her. The resolution seems to be stable for the time being (anyway).Go to the full post... http://ask.metafilter.com/76449/Dell...een-Resolution Good luck. -- chgo22phx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chgo22phx's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/chgo22phx.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/707090.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Resolution Reset on Startup
=?Utf-8?B?QW5keQ==?=;112966 Wrote: I have a 1280x1024 monitor. Every time I start Windows Vista, my screen resolution automatically resets itself to 640x480. I have no idea why, but I have to change it back every time i start Windows. I've looked around, but I seem to be the only one I know of who has this problem. Does anyone know how I can solve this? I had an issue where my screen resolution would go from 1680x1050 to something like 640 or 800 seemingly at random after hybernation, restart or even in some cases when I resumed operation after a screensaver was ended by moving a mouse or something. All my icons would shift around on my desktop, and it was generally annoying. I found a fix to it by accident. I run Vista 32 bit. I right click the desktop, choose properties. Then I go to display settings, and choose the advanced settings at the bottom of that little screen. In this setting screen I have tabs at the top... Color Mangement, GeForce 8800GT (My graphics card), Adapter, Monitor, and Troubleshoot. Choose your graphics card tab. For me this brings up a screen that shows NVIDIA. (just my graphics card maker) Then I choose "start the NVIDIA control Panel" I chose the advanved option, it gave me a choice between advanced and basic. Then here it the fix! The key was this: Under the display options I have the following choices: 1) Change resolution 2) Change flat Panel Scaling* 3) Rotate Display 4) Manage Custom Resolutions 5) Set up Multiple Displays * Choose Change Flat Panel Scaling. This will bring up new options. My old setting was "Use my display's built-in scaling" I changed the selected option to "Use NVIDIA [My graphics card] scaling" Since I've done this. I've not had one issue with my screen resolution changing back on me. Hope this helps. -- Evil_Salmon Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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