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offline iiiiiiiiii from Gloucester on 2007-10-31 10:21 [#02139499]
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can some computer savvy geezer lend a helping hand?

i appear to have fucked up my resoloution settings running
an amiga emulator(WinUAE). monitor just goes into standby,
saying 'system over range'. have tried safe mode which works
fine, but changing the res back in that makes no odds, tried
system restore, no luck, scouring the internet for help now,
but most of the advice seems to be what i've already tried.


any help would be magic. cheers in advance.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2007-10-31 10:28 [#02139501]
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I'm not sure if someone has suggested this already, or if it
could have anything to do with the problem, but a while back
I had a similar problem with a program that forces higher
refresh rates than your monitor can supposedly handle.. It
worked for my friend's monitor but mine would only display
the 'system over range' -style error message and nothing
else. I'm not sure if this could be your problem, but
perhaps WinUAE forced some weird refresh rate on your
monitor? I think I solved the problem simply by rebooting,
so I guess that wouldn't work for you. Just trying to
suggest things others might not have.

Have you been able to get any resolutions in safe-mode to
carry over to normal-mode? Or is it that every resolution
you try just displays the error message?


 

offline iiiiiiiiii from Gloucester on 2007-10-31 10:39 [#02139503]
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yeah all i can get in safe mode is 800 or 1024. not making
any difference. still going into standby. major shit!


 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2007-10-31 10:40 [#02139504]
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have you tried uninstalling your graphics card driver from
safemode, then booting into normal mode?


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-10-31 10:42 [#02139505]
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first try not only altering the resolution, but also the
refresh rate (hz). Then, if that doesn't work, uninstall
drivers.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2007-10-31 10:42 [#02139506]
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Yeah I think Grahf's suggestion might yield some results. If
you uninstall the video drivers from safe mode, your video
card should still be able to run in basic VGA 256 colors
mode, just so that you can get back to normal-mode and
download new drivers and perhaps new directX.


 

offline iiiiiiiiii from Gloucester on 2007-10-31 11:17 [#02139510]
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hey it worked

cheers guys. i owe y'all a beer.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2007-10-31 11:23 [#02139513]
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hey, glad to hear you've got the problem sorted. :)


 

offline iiiiiiiiii from Gloucester on 2007-10-31 11:26 [#02139514]
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cheers for tips.

has pissed me off a bit tho. i know it was probably me being
careless, but a software app shouldnt be able to dick around
system settings like that.

>:(



 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2007-10-31 11:28 [#02139515]
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:)


 

offline Sano on 2007-10-31 11:29 [#02139516]
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What were you playing on the Amiga? I don't like WinUAE too
much I just use WinFellow for the Amiga 500/600 games, I
wish there was a way to play North&South online!

If you don't need AGA try using WinFellow as an alternative,
playing Amiga games with a Sega Saturn gamepad is nice.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2007-10-31 11:32 [#02139517]
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I agree completely. I think there's a suspension of wariness
that comes naturally to software; people just expect it to
work without causing system-crushing errors, and rightfully
so. I felt the same way with that refreshforce program..
When my friend was explaining it to me, I thought to myself
that it probably isn't wise to force your monitor to refresh
faster than it is rated to, but I figured it just had to
work. I then found out the hard way that I was incorrect in
this assumption.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2007-10-31 11:34 [#02139519]
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I'm referring to final version software in that last post,
of course. Alphas and Betas are another story entirely.


 

offline freqy on 2007-10-31 12:00 [#02139527]
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HEY !!! i wanted to help him !! ........oh wait i can!!

Dont do it again!!

hope this helps

thanks
from freqy



 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2007-10-31 15:25 [#02139576]
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Run regedit ,then rename all the weird looking things to the
names of your favorite farm animals.*

*Don't do this


 

offline iiiiiiiiii from Gloucester on 2007-10-31 15:46 [#02139577]
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i'll have a look at that one, but i broke it whilst trying
to get the fantastic, but AGA only, Banshee to run
fullscreen properly.


 

offline freqy on 2007-10-31 16:33 [#02139581]
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Run regedit ,then rename all the weird looking things to
the
names of your favorite farm animals.*
*Don't do this

>>

hey i just did what you said but didnt notice the * <<
asterix thing.

my computers totally moo moo'ed !!

im on my parents machine typing this up ...

can you make thngs a little more clear in future please!!!
:(

aahhhhhGGGHhh


 

offline oyvinto on 2007-10-31 18:38 [#02139585]
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do you read me


 


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