Re: Help !!!!!
AlmostBob wrote:
| Then boot onto safe mode, tap F5 during start up and windows should
| load with a vga 640*480 resolution and you can alter the settings
| from there.
|
| Least, I think its F5, might be F8, keyboard has 16 Fkeys and I
| forget which ones I reprogrammed to be different
It is F5 to get directly to Safe Mode. Or, hold CTRL (or continually tap
F8) during boot to get to the Windows Startup Menu, which hopefully will
be able to display.
If none of that will work, perhaps try a Startup Diskette, & do the
Registry restore Myers suggested.
Get a Startup Diskette from
http://www.bootdisk.com/
, if you don't already have one from "Control Panel, Add/Remove
Programs, Startup Disk tab". At the A:\Prompt, enter...
SCANREG /Restore
It will offer five, one for each of the last five separate days you
booted successfully. Start with the one of the day the problem began, as
these backups of the entire Registry (& System.ini & Win.ini) are done
at boot, not at shut down.
It may be wise to make a copy of the Registry backups first, because I
do believe each /Restore will wipe out the oldest backup. SO, first...
MD C:\RegBckUp
COPY C:\Windows\SysBckUp\RB???.cab C:\RegBckUp
That should copy the 5 Registry backups & perhaps an RBBAD.cab to the
new folder RegBckUp. Here is what it looks like...
C:\>COPY C:\Windows\SysBckUp\RB???.cab C:\RegBckUp
C:\Windows\SysBckUp\rbbad.cab
C:\Windows\SysBckUp\rb005.cab
C:\Windows\SysBckUp\rb004.cab
C:\Windows\SysBckUp\rb003.cab
C:\Windows\SysBckUp\rb000.cab
C:\Windows\SysBckUp\rb001.cab
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| spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org
| AVG free antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/
| Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
|
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
| Super Antispyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/
| Panda online AntiVirus scan
http://www.activescan.com
| Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
|
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
| Catalog of removal tools (1)
|
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
| Catalog of removal tools (2)
|
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?CID=40387
| Trouble Shooting guide to Windows
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
| Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
|
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
| links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages
| before use
| Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
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| "Rachel" <Rachel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:1FD84388-CE06-4C06-A4A9-E37A237EDC4E@microsoft.com...
|> Thanks for responding. I would answer no but it won't even let me
|> do that. I had tried pressing "Y" for yes and "N" for no -- also
|> tried typing out the word -- but still nothing.
|> Rachel
|>
|> "AlmostBob" wrote:
|>
|> > Video card settings have become corrupted
|> > answer NO to the question instead of escaping out and reset the
|> > video mode to something your monitor can support, 800*600 1024*762
|> > until boot is complete and then adjust for best view
|> >
|> > --
|> > -- -- -- -- --
|> > Adaware
http://www.lavasoft.de
|> > spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org
|> > AVG free antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/
|> > Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
|> >
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
|> > Super Antispyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/
|> > Panda online AntiVirus scan
http://www.activescan.com
|> > Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
|> >
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
|> > Catalog of removal tools (1)
|> >
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
|> > Catalog of removal tools (2)
|> >
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?CID=40387
|> > Trouble Shooting guide to Windows
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
|> > Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
|> >
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
|> > links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages
|> > before use
|> > Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
|> > _
|> > "Rachel" <Rachel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
|> > news:8C094FAF-23EA-4DA8-A593-9235DC4DB0DD@microsoft.com...
|> > > My daughter has a computer that runs Windows 98SE. We started
|> > > it the other day and all we got on the monitor was a box right
|> > > in the center that says "Out of Range" V: (numbers) and H:
|> > > (numbers) and then it asks if the PC perameters are correct.
|> > >
|> > > I think it is trying to tell me that it is done for but any
|> > > suggestions. I can't get by this screen at all to even get into
|> > > the hard drive for info. If I press the Escape key it puts the
|> > > monitor in the standby mode but the tower still does its thing.
|> > >
|> > > Rachel
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
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