Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri Mar 23 11:09:06 CDT 2007
Thanks. Will forward and let everyone know what happens. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:45 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Display Turns Sideways Sounds like an advanced feature of the gfx card to me... Go to display properties, then advanced, and somewhere in there (possibly the ATI or nVidia software) will be something about screen rotation. Sometimes presing ctrl+cursor keys can change it, give that a go too. Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: 23 March 2007 15:31 To: List 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/730 - Release Date: 3/22/2007 7:44 AM