Jun 23
Screen Goes Black After Changing the Resolution
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If you’ve changed your screen resolution and the screen went black and stayed black, there is hope! When you change your resolution in Windows, you’ll be asked to confirm the change by clicking Yes. The theory is: if you can’t see the confirmation, you wont click Yes. However, if you hit Enter, or something crazy (but computers aren’t crazy…) goes wrong, you’ll be left with a black screen. A black screen has it’s uses: a mirror, an oversize paperweight, a doorstop etc. However, if you’re not satisfied with your new-found paperweight, follow this guide.
My Screen Wont Display Anything
To get your screen working again, do the following:
Windows XP
- Turn off your PC
- Turn your PC on again and hit the F8 key multiple times
- Down arrow to Enable VGA Mode and press Enter
- When Windows XP loads, you can change the resolution again to suit your needs
Windows 7/Vista
- Turn off your PC
- Turn your PC on again and hit the F8 key multiple times
- Down arrow to Enable low-resolution video (640×480) and press Enter
- When Windows Vista/7 loads, you can change the resolution again to suit your needs
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4 Responses to Screen Goes Black After Changing the Resolution
Sandeep Chouhan
Its quite possible. I never changed my screen resolution, but its really a wonderful article.
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Jenna
Pretty cool post. I just found your blog and wanted to say
that I have really enjoyed reading your posts. Any way
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon!
m4dj
Thanks ! I think its a very usefull article. It happened to me a couple of times….
Tech @ InkAPoint
Me too faced such a problem and I am using this trick only. Good post dude.
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