System Prefs/Dual Monitor conundrum
by Kevin Monahan
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May 17, 2003 at 9:33:26 pm
I have a 800 Mhz TiBook that I have attached to a 17" studio display. In changing the settings to a higher range, the 17" monitor suddenly went black except for an out of frequency warning. the warning then shuts the monitor completely off. i can't get my dual display situation back as I mistakenly rearranged my monitors so the controls are on the other monitor, so i don't have access to the system pref.. is there any way to reset a monitor to factory spec? Or did I kill it?
I have dual monitors in OS9, just not OSX
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Re: System Prefs/Dual Monitor conundrum by Jee Hoon Lee on May 19, 2003 at 6:23:27 pm
" i can't get my dual display situation back as I mistakenly rearranged my monitors so the controls are on the other monitor, so i don't have access to the system pref.. is there any way to reset a monitor to factory spec? Or did I kill it? "
I assume you mean you set your menu bar to the other monitor so you can't access any of your main control panels.
Hm, try detaching the 17" monitor, rebooting (the controls should default back to the laptop) and then fiddling with the settings.
If that doesn't do it, you could also try deleting the system preferences plist file in your user directory, which may default all your other settings, but that should reset the screen to defaults (I would assume that on a laptop, the default is always its own screen).
There's probably other ways as well, but I can't recall off the top of my head. This happened to me once a while back, but I don't remember exactly what I did to fix it. I think deleting the preferences did the trick.
One would think there is an easy key combo or similar to revert those settings...maybe someone out there knows...
Re: System Prefs/Dual Monitor conundrum by Jee Hoon Lee on May 19, 2003 at 6:29:28 pm
One trick I forgot to mention. Even though the display is invisible, the computer still thinks it's there, IF you can at least manage to get the display prefs to launch, you can mouse around to where you think the panel opened up and try to get it to hit one of the other options. This is, of course, much easier when I accidentally hit ok and accepted an out of range setting and try to fix it right away while the panel is still open where I last saw it....
