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I have a compaq desktop and had to use the recovery disk. The recovery went fine but when I rebooted the computer, the monitor went black. It seems to be in some sort of over sized mode. How do I change the monitor settings so that I can use my computer. Thanks
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First - re-seat the harddisk and reboot the computer. If the computer does not boot up then reboot andgo into the BIOS configuration to see if the BIOS detects the hard drive. If itdoesn't detect the hard drive then it could be faulty.Then the hard drive needsto be replaced in the computer/laptop, Windows installed and the computer orlaptop's device drivers plus your programs etc. to get a functioningcomputer/laptop again.
I would first try recovering the computer by pressing f10 as the computer is booting. If the compaq didn't come installed with a recovery partition, or like you said, no recovery discs, then you will either need to find someone who has a windows XP disc, buy an XP disc, or take the comp to the computer shop so they can run the windows xp recovery console.
If you want a really accurate, thorough explanation of why this problem happened in this first place, read this microsoft article here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314503/en-us
Good luck. Hopefully you can find someone that already has an xp disc.
On startup hit delete or whatever button your computer uses to get into bios. Then change the disk boot priority to make the cd drive 1st. Then when you restart the computer hit any key to boot from the cd. Is this what you wanted?
i havent seen this question asked, and believe me i have searched. i have compaq presario, windows xp media edition 2005, 64 amd processor, model # SR2017CL, with HP 1703 17" monitor. Prob-put computer in hibernate mode other evening, without turning it off. when i woke up, screen had diagonal lines going across it. i rebooted, well manually restarted, since comp would not respond. Message comes up white with black writing, essentially, prob with active desktop, restore or turn off. i tried to turn off and screen went back to diag. lines. looks like the horizontal hold of a tv screen is asque. tried adjusting monitor to no avail. tried a few more times, was fine for a few mins then went to same thing. now when i turn monitor on it blinks red, blue, and so on. just whole screen that color. so i am at the point where i dont know if its the comp or the monitor. (i am quite a newby) ty for any help you can give ellie
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