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I have this Hurricane 17" Flat panel monitor and it sometimes switches from perfect to like safe mode display back and fort. Do you think the monitor is faulty and needs to be thrown out the window or could this be corrected? Thanks. Hi all...

Has it always done this?
Do you have a warranty?
Next time, buy a monitor with a well-know brand.

No it wasn't like this at first, i realized this when i first installed the Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 software. I don't know if this has anything to do with it. I tried taking a screen shot but the result came out normal when i viewed it on my laptop. Yes I do have warrantee.

safe mode display?

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Originally posted by Verte
safe mode display?

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I mean the screen changes to a colour that looks like safe mode.

Ah.... probably 16 bits or something and a big res... try reintsalling your drivers.... probably they got corrupted atfer roxio-s install


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bah, glad it helped.. i think i am more useful when i'm a bit drunk see typos above btw, by big res i meant that stuff looks too big not actually a big res
* Voldemort slaps self

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Originally posted by Voldemort
Ah.... probably 16 bits or something and a big res... try reintsalling your drivers.... probably they got corrupted atfer roxio-s install

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I think you might be right, i'll do just that, thank you so much...

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Originally posted by Voldemort
and a big res

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*small res


Tried changing the resolution and colour settings to normal after this happens?

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Originally posted by Mike

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Originally posted by Voldemort
and a big res

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*small res


Tried changing the resolution and colour settings to normal after this happens?

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I think what he meant was, some cards have small frame buffers that don't allow 24 bit colour at high res with some settings. Probably not the issue though.

I'm pretty certain this is not a monitor problem, so you can hang on to that. At worst, it's your graphics card. Seems it's having some problem with the normal graphics channel and reverting back the the legacy VGA channel. If the problem is not in the drivers and you've got a spare graphics card lying around, give it a try. Your card is may be under warranty, so if this is the problem, be sure to look into that.

I have rectified the problem based on Voldemort's response, he was exactly right. Thanx