Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri Mar 23 12:25:31 CDT 2007
Bill, Job, Bobby: Graphics card properties - rotate display. Who knew? (not me) Problem fixed. Thanks. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:46 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Display Turns Sideways Could it be one of those monitors that has a switch (or does it in setup) that allows it to display at 90 degrees and they accidentally hit the switch? Bobby -----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: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:31 AM 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 _______________________________________________ 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