[dba-Tech] Display Turns Sideways

Hi Rocky,

I have an nVidia GE force 7300 video card and in its software I can rotate 
the screen. Perhaps the janitor or someone was having fun with your client 
and rotated it. On mine you can do it  with the NVIDIA control panel.

HTH

Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:30 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Display Turns Sideways


> Dear List:
>
> Just got a call from a customer with a problem I've never heard of 
> before -
> the image on his display is rotated 90 degrees.
>
> They leave the computers on all night.  When he came in this morning, the
> image was rotated.  He tried to power down normally, but he did not get 
> the
> shutdown dialog box after clicking Start, Turn Off Computer.  So he 
> powered
> down using the power button.
>
> Rebooted, and the display was still rotated 90 degrees.
>
> We checked first to see 1) that he wasn't laying down, and 2) that the
> bottom of the display was still  resting on the desk. Both checked out OK.
>
> The machine with the problem is hosting the back end of an application I
> developed for them.  And they are getting the 'Disk or network error'
> message intermittently.  So there may be a NIC problem.  But I don't know
> how the display problem could be related. (which says more about my 
> hardware
> knowledge than the problem)
>
> Of course, he didn't change anything.  Any ideas, anybody?
>
> MTIA,
>
> Rocky
>
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