Screen display turned thru 90 degrees!!

by JHawk85 Feb 25, 2006 10:08PM PST

Hi, I am helping a friend who has a recent Dell with AZERTY keyboard, Windows XP in French (Fenetres?). She is not tech literate and installed a Lara Croft game and after rebooting the entire display was turned at 90 degrees. Amazing. On a simple level, easy to fix with an LCD screen; just turn it thru 90 degs itself, but that misses the point. Uninstalling the game did not restore correct orientation.
The boot sequence is at the correct orientation, it rotates when it goes over to the high resolution part of the start sequence.
I presume this is either a hardware problem with the video card (of unknown make) or the game has installed some DirectX driver not tested on the French Windows???
Anyone seen this or know the cure?
Thanks
paul

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Try this

by Tufenuf Feb 25, 2006 10:27PM PST

Paul, Press Ctrl and Alt keyboard keys together then either Up and Down or Right Left arrow key to rotate the screen.

Tufenuf

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More info on the 90 degree screen rotation

by Tufenuf Feb 25, 2006 10:36PM PST

Paul, If that computer has a NVidia video card, look in Control Panel>>NVidia Nview
Desktop Manager for the rotate settings under NV Rotate.

Tufenuf

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90 degrees

by JHawk85 Feb 26, 2006 12:53AM PST

Hi Tufenuf
Thanks for quick reply. Is that a Dell-specific thing? My PC is a Compaq on Win 2k and all it does is jump up and down a bit, on my wife's Win XP it does nothing
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Re: 90 degrees

by Tufenuf Feb 26, 2006 1:00AM PST

Paul, From what I've read it's not really a Dell specific thing as it also doesn't change the screen rotation on my Gateway computer. I do know that the both fixes in my previous replies have corrected that problem for many others who had the 90 degree screen rotation problem.

Tufenuf

Screen display turned thru 90 degrees!!

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