alltoasters

i was playing some fallout 3 and it crashed (like it usually seems to do after a while.) and completly crashed windows. i rebooted and when i came back i was greeted to 640x480 and when i went into the display properties to change it back, my monitors native res of 1600x900 wasnt there!!!! so now im stuck using 1440x900



is there a way i can get all the previous resoultions back



edit: ive tried system restore and reinstalling the monitors drivers and it didnt do anything

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Infrabasse

Have you tried reinstalling your graphics driver?

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alltoasters

yes ive tried that and it still doesnt work

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Infrabasse

Then although unusual, try reinstalling your monitor through the device manager.

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alltoasters

hmm i managed to reinstall the monitor drivers, now i get a much smaller selection of resolutions like i used to, but the highest is 1440x900

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Infrabasse

If I remember right, somewhere in xp's resolution settings there's an option that enables you to "list all modes". Your 1600x900 ain't there either?

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alltoasters

nope

the resolutions i can have are

800x600
1024x768
1152x864
1280x720
1280x768
1280x800
1280x960
1280x1024
1360x768
1360x1024
1440x900 (the best avalable out of the lot)
1600x1200
1680x1050
1792x1344
1800x1440
1856x1392
1920x1080
1920x1200
1920x1440
2048x1536


it seems my pc has forgot that 1600x900 exists

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Mike-O

Try plugging your monitor into the other output of the graphics card. It may sound silly, but try it.

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Infrabasse

powerstrip might be able to force your resolution back in there ...
But that's kind of a dirty solution

Maybe roll back to a previous restore point if you have a fairly recent one ...

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alltoasters

ive tried 2 restore points, neither did anything. i guess i might have to format sometime.


i cant belive how something like fallout could do so much damage to windows

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