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Ewan's My Man · 03-13-2004, 06:09 PM

Ah, I need help...ok, so my sister played a computer game and it made everything on the computer to big. So I right clicked...went to properties and then went to whatever I needed to do to fix it. I only have 3 choices to change the screen resolution to. So I hadta choose between two big ones and one that seemed too small...so now my aol screen is smaller then it is normally and I have this big black bar on one side of my screen pushing everything over to the left, so I don't have a file menu. Help!

James"Thunder"Early · 03-13-2004, 06:18 PM

Tell me exactly what options you used.

Ewan's My Man · 03-13-2004, 06:42 PM

I right clicked and then I went to properties and then I went to settings.

James"Thunder"Early · 03-13-2004, 07:09 PM

Try right clicking on the desktop, the click display modes and the go to true color and put that at 1024x728.

Ewan's My Man · 03-13-2004, 09:05 PM

Whenever I go to 1024X728 I always get that black bar along the right of my computer screen. It's about a quarter inch thick and REALLY annoying. It pushes everything to the left causing me not to have the file menu. I'm ready to kill my computer. I think it's supposed to be set to 800X600, but it's always too big then and 1024X728 is always too small. Ahh, it's pissing me off.

robyrob · 03-13-2004, 09:28 PM

did your sister just install the game? sounds like it may have messed with your video card/driver settings, have you tried a restart?

Ewan's My Man · 03-13-2004, 10:01 PM

no, it's been installed for a while...and i've restarted 50 million times...stupid me, i should have restarted from the very beginning and not have messed around with it...grrr...anyways

i rechecked it and i found i have it set on 1024X768, and I don't know how to change it to 728 b/c i can't enter numbers in or anything, i have three choices, some other number 800X600 and 1024X768

robyrob · 03-13-2004, 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
no, it's been installed for a while...and i've restarted 50 million times...stupid me, i should have restarted from the very beginning and not have messed around with it...grrr...anyways

i rechecked it and i found i have it set on 1024X768, and I don't know how to change it to 728 b/c i can't enter numbers in or anything, i have three choices, some other number 800X600 and 1024X768

is this a desktop or a laptop?

you are probably going to have to reinstall the video driver - what version of windows?

Ewan's My Man · 03-13-2004, 10:26 PM

it's a desktop and it's windows 2000

Ewan's My Man · 03-13-2004, 10:29 PM

how do you reinstall the video driver?

god, why are computers so frikin difficult?!?!

robyrob · 03-13-2004, 10:33 PM

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Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
it's a desktop and it's windows 2000

what kind of video card is it? the video card's drivers are what gives it the ability to display at different screen resolutions, so if your usual setting is NOT there it is a good sign that the driver is corrupted

i would just tell you to reinstall the driver, or go into safe mode and uninstall it and let Windows plug and play the correct driver, but not all machines are the same....

are there any manuals/disks/support info that came with it that could give you instructions to reinstall the driver properly?

Ewan's My Man · 03-13-2004, 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by robyrob
what kind of video card is it? the video card's drivers are what gives it the ability to display at different screen resolutions, so if your usual setting is NOT there it is a good sign that the driver is corrupted

i would just tell you to reinstall the driver, or go into safe mode and uninstall it and let Windows plug and play the correct driver, but not all machines are the same....

are there any manuals/disks/support info that came with it that could give you instructions to reinstall the driver properly?

well...i'm just gonna show what you wrote to my mommy tomorrow so i can have someone read it who actually understands that

robyrob · 03-13-2004, 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by Ewan's My Man
well...i'm just gonna show what you wrote to my mommy tomorrow so i can have someone read it who actually understands that

there is a good chance that you just need to uninstall it, and let Windows reinstall it, but some cards are weird and you can screw it up if you dont do it the way they want you to

if you are still having a problem let me know tomorrow

Chelsea · 03-13-2004, 11:10 PM

Hmm..Black Bar at the right side?

I wanna try something crazy here. What type of *monitor* do you have?

Ewan's My Man · 03-13-2004, 11:12 PM

ummm...a mitsubishi one...

03-13-2004, 06:09 PM	#1
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03-13-2004, 06:18 PM	#2
James"Thunder"Early Whoever's In New England Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 23, 2004 Location: The Apollo Posts: 7,088	Tell me exactly what options you used.

03-13-2004, 06:42 PM	#3
Ewan's My Man I'll Cover You Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 29, 2001 Location: Beneath the opera house... Posts: 5,682	I right clicked and then I went to properties and then I went to settings.

03-13-2004, 07:09 PM	#4
James"Thunder"Early Whoever's In New England Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 23, 2004 Location: The Apollo Posts: 7,088	Try right clicking on the desktop, the click display modes and the go to true color and put that at 1024x728.

03-13-2004, 09:05 PM	#5
Ewan's My Man I'll Cover You Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 29, 2001 Location: Beneath the opera house... Posts: 5,682	Whenever I go to 1024X728 I always get that black bar along the right of my computer screen. It's about a quarter inch thick and REALLY annoying. It pushes everything to the left causing me not to have the file menu. I'm ready to kill my computer. I think it's supposed to be set to 800X600, but it's always too big then and 1024X728 is always too small. Ahh, it's pissing me off.

03-13-2004, 10:01 PM	#7
Ewan's My Man I'll Cover You Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 29, 2001 Location: Beneath the opera house... Posts: 5,682	no, it's been installed for a while...and i've restarted 50 million times...stupid me, i should have restarted from the very beginning and not have messed around with it...grrr...anyways i rechecked it and i found i have it set on 1024X768, and I don't know how to change it to 728 b/c i can't enter numbers in or anything, i have three choices, some other number 800X600 and 1024X768

03-13-2004, 10:26 PM	#9
Ewan's My Man I'll Cover You Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 29, 2001 Location: Beneath the opera house... Posts: 5,682	it's a desktop and it's windows 2000

03-13-2004, 10:29 PM	#10
Ewan's My Man I'll Cover You Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 29, 2001 Location: Beneath the opera house... Posts: 5,682	how do you reinstall the video driver? god, why are computers so frikin difficult?!?!

03-13-2004, 11:10 PM	#14
Chelsea Semi-retired Forum Veteran Join Date: Jan 07, 2001 Location: Washington Posts: 5,727	Hmm..Black Bar at the right side? I wanna try something crazy here. What type of monitor do you have?

03-13-2004, 11:12 PM	#15
Ewan's My Man I'll Cover You Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 29, 2001 Location: Beneath the opera house... Posts: 5,682	ummm...a mitsubishi one...