Friday, November 4, 2011

dell cannot display this video mode

Found an old dell dimension 4500 from some corner of the lab and decide to put up a Windows machine with office because the department machines are all linux and occasionally I do need windows and office to communicate with the rest of the world.

After installing xp3 and all the updates, and sophos, the monitor failed to display after reboot. Type the title into google search pops a lot webpages, so other people are seeing this as well.

The following works for me:

1. reboot machine and into safe mode.
2. in safe mode, control panel->computer administrative->device driver->uninstall display adapter driver
3. reboot into normal mode

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