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From: B Roberts on 30 Jul 2010 16:33 Help! When I turned my PC on today the picture was inverted ie everything was upside down. I am running XP and have never had this happen before. Upart fom tipping my monitor upside down, how can I fix this? Help would be appreciated
From: Shenan Stanley on 30 Jul 2010 16:44 B Roberts wrote: > Help! > When I turned my PC on today the picture was inverted ie > everything was upside down. > > I am running XP and have never had this happen before. > > Upart fom tipping my monitor upside down, how > can I fix this? > > Help would be appreciated Use your video card utility to flip it back. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
From: Elmo on 30 Jul 2010 17:09 B Roberts wrote: > Help! > When I turned my PC on today the picture was inverted i.e. > everything was upside down. > > I am running XP and have never had this happen before. > > Apart from tipping my monitor upside down, how > can I fix this? > > Help would be appreciated Press Ctrl/Alt-Up Cursor or Press Ctrl/Shift-R ...depending on the manufacturer. Use the Video Card utility to disable this "feature". -- Joe =o)
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 30 Jul 2010 18:11 On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:33:48 +1200, "B Roberts" <gochanz(a)yahoo.co.nz> wrote: > Help! > When I turned my PC on today the picture was inverted ie > everything was upside down. > > I am running XP and have never had this happen before. > > Upart fom tipping my monitor upside down, how > can I fix this? > > Help would be appreciated The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video card, to help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait orientation. Almost certainly you accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and some arrow key. Rotate it back using those keys. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: B Roberts on 30 Jul 2010 23:33
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake(a)this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message news:pfj656tidmssq7eaut98v8oa99i4s7r5pg(a)4ax.com... > On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:33:48 +1200, "B Roberts" <gochanz(a)yahoo.co.nz> > wrote: > >> Help! >> When I turned my PC on today the picture was inverted ie >> everything was upside down. >> >> I am running XP and have never had this happen before. >> >> Upart fom tipping my monitor upside down, how >> can I fix this? >> >> Help would be appreciated > > > > The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video > card, to help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait > orientation. Almost certainly you accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and > some arrow key. > > Rotate it back using those keys. > > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 > Please Reply to the Newsgroup Thanks for that, I hit Control-Alt and and the up arrow and it fixed it. I learnt something new today!! |