Re: Windows Display Problems

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It doesn't matter if the reinstall was done on a formatted drive. If you reinstall windows, you must reinstall the video drivers.

Craig

CinciDave wrote:

Thanks for your help. Let me respond to your suggestions - My reinstall was performed on a formatted drive. I checked the video card and the driver seems to be ok, I checked the accessability functions and there was nothing exceptional checked.

Therefore, I am at a complete loss as to why this is happening. Before the problem occurred the displays were fine.

I am still in a quandry and seek more help, please!

CinciDave


"Malke" wrote:


CinciDave wrote:


I recently reinstalled XP Pro on my Dell XPS 850t PC after trying
unsuccessfully to repair a corrupted registry (updates have all been
installed). My problem concerns the display of some menu items. For
example in this display (Window XP Basics) the left pane, listing the
questions, has letters so large that only a few words are visible (i.e.,
ERROR 1402, Could not ope...) for the current top post. The right pane has
large letters as well. When using IE to view some familiar web sites, the
displays are large and sometimes overlap. Sub menus sometimes have letters
so large that only one or two fill the viewing space. I set the text to the
smallest and searched my PC for media display controls, but have not been
able to fix this problem. My
Video Card is a NVidia GeForce FX5200 and the Monitor is a Sylvania
Proview HD-972 19". I know there is a setting somewhere in the system, or
a downloadable fix, but I haven't been able to find it as yet. Any help
from the experts in cyber space would be greatly appreciated.

1. After you did the install (assuming a clean install), did you also
install all the drivers for your hardware, including the video card? If
not, you need to do so.

2. If you already installed the drivers from Dell's website (or Nvidia's),
then check to make sure you aren't using any Accessibility Options. Having
the display set on High Contrast can do funny things.

Malke
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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
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