help! change signal timing

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gdm7

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Can anyone help.... I have a athlon 1 ghz with ATI 7500 all in wonder video card. I just put in a new CPU and after the computer boot to the password screen, I put in the password, click okay and the monitor displays a "red box" with the words "frequency out of range, change signal timing". That's as far as I can go, how do I fix this, Thanks!
 
that's your refresh rate for either your monitor or graphicss card. try unplugging your monitor and then unplugging your video card. put them back in and see if that changes it back to defualt settings.

i had this problem and removing he gfx card fixed it. nothing else worked.
 
Thanks for responding 4W4K3! I already tried that, and I also installed an old video card and it does the same thing. If I could get to the properties page, I could reset to default. I wonder why it lets me get to the login page and no farther.
 
hmm...let me look something up.

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1. can you boot to safe mode? Try that and then change frequency settings.
2. If that doesnt work, boot to safe mode again and re-install drivers/rollback drivers.

to boot to safe mode press F8 during boot. thats the default key i think.

tell me if that works.
 
4W4K3 - thanks tried that... wouldn't boot to safe mode. The monitor is all distorted... boots to the login screen... then a black screen with red box saying frequency out of range, change signal timing. That doesn't go away till I reboot.
 
hmmmm...tricky tricky. have another monitor that you can work with? if you do plug that in and see if you can boot, then change your settings to windows default and plug in old monitor as well.

can you force your monitor to use 60Hz refresh rate? Maybe through the menu buttons on the monitor?

possibly clearing the CMOS will default all settings and fix it. actually i highly suggest that after a CPU upgrade.
 
gdm7 said:
4W4K3 , you know computers! How do I clear the CMOS??
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there is a jumper on your mobo. USUALLY it's right next to the little watch battery on your mobo, and it should be marked as "CMOS" if you're lucky.

it's a 2 pin jumper on a 3-pin setup...you just switch it from where it is to the other 2 pins, wait 10secs, then switch it back. make sure your powersupply is off and there is no power throughout your computer.

once you do this, you will have to go back into the BIOS and setup everything the way you want. or you can jsut choose the "optimized defaults" option and it will load everything to stock settings.

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gdm7 said:
Man!! picture too! Do I have to remove the watch battery before I do this??
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no you shouldn't have to. on very old boards sometimes you have to..but i never have and i run a Socket A board. If it doesn't work without removing it, then give it a go without the battery.
 
GRR!!! I will have to research more! I remember I removed my vid card and re-installed it and that fixed it. Must be a diff problem though. Sry i couldn't help anymore. I'll post back if i find more...

Somebody else step in for now:)
 
4w4k3 - YOU STILL THERE? I hooked it up to another monitor and it boots to windows. Do I hook up the monitor that gave me the signal timing message - then what?
 
gdm7 said:
4w4k3 - YOU STILL THERE? I hooked it up to another monitor and it boots to windows. Do I hook up the monitor that gave me the signal timing message - then what?
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using the other monitor that works, go into your Display settings and change your graphics card settings all to default/manufacturer settings. that SHOULD work. but to be safe...

you can uninstall your graphics card drivers and monitor drivers, reboot, plug in the problem monitor, and it should auto recognize it and you can re-install your drivers again.

im about to go to bed, but will check back in the morning.
 
Thanks 4W4K3 !! Did what you said...... everything works great!! Goodnight, and thanks again!

GDM7
 
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