> Fresh install on Vista Premium. Loaded fine. Original monitor was an
> Acer
> analog lcd. A week after install, I replaced this with a Viewsonic
> digital
> lcd. Vista would not boot. Showed a "Choose..." window - Safe Mode, Last
> Known Good, etc. Absolutely would not boot. Swapped out the Viewsonic
> for
> the Acer and booted up as if nothing ever happened.
> How do I get this O/S to accept another monitor? Will it do this when I
> replace a keyboard, or add a wireless mouse?
> Fresh install on Vista Premium. Loaded fine. Original monitor was an Acer
> analog lcd. A week after install, I replaced this with a Viewsonic digital
> lcd. Vista would not boot. Showed a "Choose..." window - Safe Mode, Last
> Known Good, etc. Absolutely would not boot. Swapped out the Viewsonic for
> the Acer and booted up as if nothing ever happened.
> How do I get this O/S to accept another monitor? Will it do this when I
> replace a keyboard, or add a wireless mouse?
> All LCD monitors use fixed pixel digital technology.
> Some only have analog/VGA interfaces.
> Others have both a analog/VGA interface and a digital/DVI interface.
> Try using the VGA interface on the Viewsonic instead of the DVI interface.
> Also make sure using safe mode that your PC desktop resolution is set to the
> native resolution of your Viewsonic monitor.
>
> "Corky" <Corky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CAA5DAE2-D654-47FD-BA14-6F0BFDEE76C9@microsoft.com...> > Fresh install on Vista Premium. Loaded fine. Original monitor was an> JW, it doesn't matter if monitors use Etch-A-Sketch technology - the fault here is the Vista O/S. I swapped the ACER to my server running XP, and it fired right up to the desktop with no problems. Safe Mode, etc becuase I replaced a monitor? Gotta be kidding.....
> > Acer
> > analog lcd. A week after install, I replaced this with a Viewsonic
> > digital
> > lcd. Vista would not boot. Showed a "Choose..." window - Safe Mode, Last
> > Known Good, etc. Absolutely would not boot. Swapped out the Viewsonic
> > for
> > the Acer and booted up as if nothing ever happened.
> > How do I get this O/S to accept another monitor? Will it do this when I
> > replace a keyboard, or add a wireless mouse?
>Fresh install on Vista Premium. Loaded fine. Original monitor was an Acer--
>analog lcd. A week after install, I replaced this with a Viewsonic digital
>lcd. Vista would not boot. Showed a "Choose..." window - Safe Mode, Last
>Known Good, etc. Absolutely would not boot. Swapped out the Viewsonic for
>the Acer and booted up as if nothing ever happened.
>How do I get this O/S to accept another monitor? Will it do this when I
>replace a keyboard, or add a wireless mouse?
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