display driver problem

[ingber]

My Windows Me system has developed a system strange to me. During the
bootup all is normal till the loading of Windows. The most frequent
symptom is a display on the monitor warning that there is a mismatch in
the frequency of the graphics card and that of the monitor. It reports
the horizontal frequency as too high. Nothing can be done from that
point but a restart.

The "solution" has been to boot into safe mode, which does work, and
then to reinstall the NVidia display driver. This is a tiresome process
that must be repeated at each startup. I can not tell whether this is a
hardware problem, perhaps the card or the hard drive storing the file
with an error, or software.

Has anyone run into this and found a diagnosis?

Thanks

[Rick T]

ingber wrote:
> My Windows Me system has developed a system strange to me. During the
> bootup all is normal till the loading of Windows. The most frequent
> symptom is a display on the monitor warning that there is a mismatch in
> the frequency of the graphics card and that of the monitor. It reports
> the horizontal frequency as too high. Nothing can be done from that
> point but a restart.
>
> The "solution" has been to boot into safe mode, which does work, and
> then to reinstall the NVidia display driver. This is a tiresome process
> that must be repeated at each startup. I can not tell whether this is a
> hardware problem, perhaps the card or the hard drive storing the file
> with an error, or software.
>

ControlPanel/Display/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/RefreshRate... there are
several choices, Optimal, Default, and possibly some real numbers.
Playing with that might prove helpful.

nVidia utilities might help you set a fixed rate; refer to your graphics
card and monitor's user manual as to what the best rate might be.


Rick