Windows XP Question for my geeky friends

[Cataholic]

It sounds like a monitor setting where your screen resolution is too big/small the display.

[Catty1]

We've been through quite a few screen resolutions for the monitor...no difference. Ah well, maybe I'll just do a data recovery on Thurs and follow with an OS reinstall. That should do it, though it's pretty drastic. System Restore did nothing.

It'll work out. Thanks!

[Jessika]

It sounds like the monitor itself, not the graphics card, screen resolution, or computer. On the monitor itself, look for a button that brings up the monitor options. You should be able to "stretch" and "shrink" the display to fit into the monitor.

[Catty1]

Actually, the person had mentioned using the Catalyst control center, so I installed one. Then she removed it because she didn't think that whatever had worked before had to be "installed" - it was always there, right?

She phoned a computer store and he said she needed to install the AMD catalyst control centre (the program she had removed) and gave her download guidelines. Now her second monitor (a CRT televison) and a second set of speakers are working again. DUH.

Thanks for the ideas!