I have seen some strange things happen when the accessibility options are
turned on in control panel. You may want to check there and see what is
activated and turn them all off. Not specifically the monitor issue but
keyboard problems. It is the last place anyone would look for weird
problems.

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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 4:22 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] weird... Entire Display rotated 90 degrees

Hi

I have never heard of this so I thought I'd throw it out there to see if any
of you have!

I got a help call from some one whose aunt has had a stroke and needs her
computer for rehabilitation, she plays jigsaw puzzles on it as a form of
mental stimulation. The other day the display rotated through 90 degrees,
That is; the desktop and everything, to read it properly you need to put the
monitor on its side.

Events that preceded the problem and may have led to this happening are:

         1/ she placed something on the keyboard and leaned on it, possibly
pressing multiple keys at once... well I know I have done similar things
over the years but never to this effect.
         2/ A new jigsaw programme with lots of puzzles was loaded on some
days before, I cant imaging how this would corrupt the video output though.

My thinking on this is that it is probably either a hardware problem or a
hardware setting.  Could there be a hotkey combination for the display
adapter that might have caused this? If so, why would anyone want to rotate
their video output through 90 degrees?
Any helpful suggestions would be welcome.

As it is very difficult to understand the owner of the computer due to her
medical condition, I have to communicate through the niece, thus I have not
seen the system in question yet and  have minimal information so far:

The computer was bought new a year ago, it is a pentium. I did manage to get
the info on the graphics adapter via phone via the niece.  "Intel
82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics controller"  This sounds to me like its
integrated into the motherboard, though I'm only guessing.  Also the
operating system is windows XP

Thanks for your help
Leigh


Leigh Jennings
Hound Heaven Web Design
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