Ewen Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 My son has been installed back at Uni. and connected his new PC up to a 32" LCD TV. The PC graphics card (ATI) has twin DVI outputs, hes connected the TV (DVI input) via one of them....he wasnt happy with the quality of the picture, and I think hes changed (within the ATI cards set-up menu) the 'plug and play monitor' to a 'default monitor' and restarted the computer. Now as soon as the Dell front screen comes up, there is a 'no signal' message and the screen is blank...hence he cant get back into the ATI set-up menu. How can he sort this ? Any help, as ever is appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 If your connecting a PC to a normal TV the quality isnt going to be good, unless your using a HD tv. even then its not going to be the same. Remember a normal PC monitor runs at 1152x768 for example. A normal tv runs at 640x somthing ? Use a propper PC monitor. As for getting back out of the setting hes made if he cant get into safe mode or anything you would need to connect a propper monitor and put the setting back within windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geneb Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 If he's running windows XP get him to restart pc and keep pressing F8 key this will bring up the safemode menu, get him to select VGA mode this will get him back into windows were he can put the settings correct then reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 If your connecting a PC to a normal TV the quality isnt going to be good, unless your using a HD tv. even then its not going to be the same. Remember a normal PC monitor runs at 1152x768 for example. A normal tv runs at 640x somthing ? Use a propper PC monitor. As for getting back out of the setting hes made if he cant get into safe mode or anything you would need to connect a propper monitor and put the setting back within windows EDIT...thanks to you too Geneb:) Thanks for that:) He beat us to it....he reconnected via a VGA cable and the screen is back. The TV is HD ready, but as you say wont display more than 760 I think. Hes got it almost just right at the moment running 1280 x 720, and he seems happy enough. Kids eh:d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 i was going to suggest that safe mode thing. but from what i read i thought you couldnt see anything at all after the boot screen lol so he wouldnt know where/how to select the vga mode Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted January 7, 2007 Author Share Posted January 7, 2007 If he's running windows XP get him to restart pc and keep pressing F8 key this will bring up the safemode menu, get him to select VGA mode this will get him back into windows were he can put the settings correct then reboot. i was going to suggest that safe mode thing. but from what i read i thought you couldnt see anything at all after the boot screen lol so he wouldnt know where/how to select the vga mode He just reconnected via a vga cable, didnt need to go in through safe mode. He was suicidal, but hes happily bazookering aliens again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 good man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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