Sideways display

This is one I've never seen before !!!

Customer dropped a file folder which fell catty-corner on the keyboard. As a result the whole display is now turned sideways. She has turned the machine off and back on, switched monitors and still no help. A search of the database points to monitor yoke problems but this is not the case. Has anyone seen this happen before?? She is now working with monitor sideways. Slightly elongated screen display but no other apparent problems.

Machine - Hewlett Packard Pentium IV 2.0 processor, 2.0g memory.

If it's an lcd or tft display, many of them are meant to be able to be rotated. the controls are usually on either the monitor or, like a lot of Samsungs, in the setup utility on the computer.

Both monitors used on the system are old and ancient, but a system restore restored the display settings back to original.

I am just curious now to see what caused this to happen, and what can be done to solve it in the future, short of having to do another system restore (Thank God for that one!!

The user's reply reminded me of our five year old when she returned from swimming lessons and proudy told my wife:

Mom, I swan underwater today!!!! When asked how she did it? she promptly replied...........

It just happened!!

Thanks

If it happened after a file folder fell on the keyboard, my bet is that there is a key combo you have to press to do it. Pretty neat trick if you can figure out which keys are the magic ones.

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Originally Posted by imaeditedbysowulo

If it happened after a file folder fell on the keyboard, my bet is that there is a key combo you have to press to do it. Pretty neat trick if you can figure out which keys are the magic ones.

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If I was going to look anywhere, it would have to be either the accessibility options, or perhaps a feature in the video card driver...like in the ATI tray or something along those lines...but yes a key combo to a natural command has to be the culprit. My cat actually knows how to hit del and enter simultaneously. He's even figured out where the shift key is and when to use it...the rotten bastard!

I've seen that before, where the setting was I don't know, but ATI hotkey stuff can initiate bizzare stuff like that...

http://forums.windrivers.com/showthr...hlight=fun+key

If all else fails,.. you could always turn the monitor on it's side I guess. :D

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Originally Posted by geeksRus

http://forums.windrivers.com/showthr...hlight=fun+key

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geeksRus, thanks for your reply!!! I guess this lady's folders just happened to hit the right combination when it fell on her keyboard. And, i missed your previous post otherwise i would have remembered it. its a nice joke to play on someone who leaves his desk only to return his display turned upside down.

andiol :)

what OS those she use?

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Originally Posted by andiol

This is one I've never seen before !!!

Customer dropped a file folder which fell catty-corner on the keyboard. As a result the whole display is now turned sideways. She has turned the machine off and back on, switched monitors and still no help. A search of the database points to monitor yoke problems but this is not the case. Has anyone seen this happen before?? She is now working with monitor sideways. Slightly elongated screen display but no other apparent problems.

Machine - Hewlett Packard Pentium IV 2.0 processor, 2.0g memory.

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If it is an XP OS, if you press down the ctrl and Alt key simutaneously and hit any directional arrow, the screen will go black and then display in that position.

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Originally Posted by crasher

If it is an XP OS, if you press down the ctrl and Alt key simutaneously and hit any directional arrow, the screen will go black and then display in that position.

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Didn't work here . XP-pro

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Didn't work here . XP-pro

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Hmm, you can disable the hotkeys from MSCONFIG. Are hkcmd and igfxtray enabled in your startup?

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Hmm, you can disable the hotkeys from MSCONFIG. Are hkcmd and igfxtray enabled in your startup?

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Those are Intel programs, not a part of Microsoft Windows.

What a coincidence. Yesterday someone brought in a computer that had the screen upside down. The mouse also was reversed so it was hard to use. I quickly made a new user (XP). Same thing. I figured it was somewhere in the video controls but it was so hard to navigate I just uninstalled the video card software and reinstalled. It came back normal. Then when I could see what I was doing I saw where it was that you controlled that. She had intel 845 graphics and there is a rotation setting in the software.

Its easy to fix it, just tell her to drop the file cabinet (or whatever it was) in precisely the same way wit hthe keyboard at the same place :D

Honestly though my ATI drivers have that feature, all I know is alt+F5 changes to TV out only because I often hit alt+F5 went I meant to do alt+F4 and it turns my monitor off.

They either have the Intel extreme video card software installed or more likely nVidia.

Tilt your head sideways and disable nVidia rotate in the advanced section of display proporties, if it has a nVidia card.

If it is an intel card, right click the intel extreme icon on the taskbar and you can disable rotate from there.

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http://forums.windrivers.com/showthr...hlight=fun+key

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This info helped us perfectly!

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Originally Posted by crasher

If it is an XP OS, if you press down the ctrl and Alt key simutaneously and hit any directional arrow, the screen will go black and then display in that position.

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This is exactly what to happened to my eMachine system running XP. The key combination above fixed the problem!

Thanks to all that replied to this post. The answer was exactly on subject and fixed the problem. please consider this post closed!

Thanks again, Andiol

I had a similar problem. I was playing this game called MapleStory, which runs in full screen mode, and all of a sudden, the game shut down. Then when the desktop appeared, the screen was tilted to the side. I did sytem recovery, which DID help, but it happened again today. after reading that it could be the problem of ATI, i looked on my taskbar, and i saw the intel graphics icon. I right clicked, and clicked graphic options, went to properties, clicked on the Rotation tab, and switched it to normal. it worked! :D

edit: i didn't see that the topic was closed, sorry. Anyway, the shortcut would be better than going through all the steps i mentioned

will this thread ever die???

Welcome to Windrivers proguy

I wonder why you chose to post in a thread that's been dormant for 17 months...?

i bearly joined this forum

Well Welcome then proguy... but please when answering in a thread, make sure that the last post date and time is within the last couple of months. The older threads are left up so that other people may find a fix or follow a discussion and then post a new thread about the current problem.