How to change my display adapter to a standard VGA mode?

Why won't my iBook's tv adapter work? This problem has been bugging me for months. I've asked the question in nearly every mac forum I could find -- but no one has offered me a solution. Surely metafilter can come to the rescue? So, cut and pasted from...

HI. I have always had my pc hooked up to my tv. usually either through DVI to vga (using an adapter) or through HDMI. Today I went to change my graphics card. I uninstalled the old one and as normal the screen went into standard vga mode (the old card...

I've made the switch to a Mac Mini, and unfortunately it seems to be detecting my monitor capabilities incorrectly; how can I override this autodetection, or otherwise get around the problem? I'm using a (relatively new) Digimate L-1705 17" TFT...

I have an alienware m17x which uses ATI mobility radeon HD 4870. I uninstalled the driver through the device manager and then reinstalled from a resource CD included with the computer. However, its not listed in the device manager after the reinstall...

Hi, I've been having trouble playing downloaded games on my computer... and i was wondering if i juss need to update my video card? - n how or do i need to replace it here's more info ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this...

Warning- the following is rather tedious going- I recommend reading on only if you do not get bored easily... Can anyone suggest what is wrong with my display set-up? Does fault lie with the monitor, graphics card, motherboard or general settings? I...

Not so long ago I gave my old laptop to my dad, the old laptop screen was already cracked so I gave the monitor to my dad as well, It was working alright but one night I was browsing the Internet and my VGA cable from my dads laptop to the monitor was...

I need help changing BIOS settings in a headless laptop to make it boot in VGA-out mode. Story: I recently bought a barebones Compaq N800c over ebay, and am intending to make it bootable. It starts up fine (I think), but is unable to automatically switch...

I currently have two monitors connected to my pc both are connected to a Geforce 9400 GT graphics card via VGA and DVI respectively. I used a DVI to VGA adapter for the screen connected to the DVI port on the graphics card. The problem is that the monitor...