Display Resolution Problem

[dreamspinner3]

I have a Compaq Presario 7110US running Windows ME, a NVIDA Ge Force 2 MX video card which came installed in the machine, and a generic monitor from my old PC. I did a system restore using Windows ME due to some buggy software to a prior time & now I can't get the monitor to display a resolution above 640x480 AND under My Computer,
Properites, Device Manager, it shows I have TWO monitors, which I don't. For both monitors it says, "No driver files are required or have been loaded for this device." The OS doesn't recognize my monitor as a Plug & Play monitor, which it is. It has always worked in the past without a problem.

I tried updating the drivers for the video card, but that didn't help. Then I removed the video card & the monitors from Windows under the Device Manager & restarted...that didn't work. Then I booted into Safe Mode, removed the video card & both monitors from the Device Manager & restarted, no good. So I then tried restoring the system to the factory backup, wiping out all my software & changes I had made to the PC, the rebooted. IT STILL HAS THE SAME PROBLEM.
So I tried doing the Safe Mode routine again AFTER doing the factory backup restore....same problem.

Compaq thinks the problem is a hardware issue & suggests I take the machine into the shop. I find it hard to believe since the problem just happened to occur after doing a system restore & never before. I want to avoid not having my PC in the shop for who-knows-how-long.

Could something be screwed up in the registery, could it be my monitor is going bad, or should I take it into the shop?

[BeardedClem]

Do you have the WindowsME disk or just a recovery disk? If you have a full WindowsME CD, the easiest thing may be just to reinstall the OS right over top of itself with no reformat. I did that with win98 when a driver install froze on me and I was stuck in vga mode.

It's pretty harmless and it didn't change any settings, people do it all the time. I just reinstalled win98, Directx, via drivers then and video card drivers.

Of course if Compaq screwed you and just gave you one of those retarded recovery disks then someone else will have to help you since I never used one of those and won't.

[dreamspinner3]

They only gave me the STUPID recovery disk or I would have just done a reinstall.

[highrisemech]

Compac has thier own setup drivers a regular version of windows will not work on these. I think your problem is that the drivers are not loaded for the video adapter. So uninstall it in the device manager, reboot once the widows wizard finds the new hardware (video adapter) click have disk and point it to your recovery cdrom. Post your result.

Oh by the way if this video card did not come with the machine originally you will have to download the drivers. Then repeat the instruction above only pointing it to the downloaded driver.

If the downloaded driver is an executable .exe
all you will have to do is run the executable and this will install your video card.

[dreamspinner3]

I took the monitor to the shop, they tested it & it worked fine for them. I bought a new monitor & it works fine at home now too.