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rberkley@students.wisc.edu wrote:

>Hi All:

>Just yesterday, my desktop completely flaked out on its 800x600 resolution and 
>began exhibiting the zigzag lines, etc., of a sync/refresh rate problem. I thought it
>was the drivers, b/c every couple of boots it would display properly. So, I reinstalled
>the drivers and while installing them (and using the install utility provided by ATI)
>I noticed that 800x600 resolution was missing from the list of supported resolutions.

It sounds to me like your monitor is borken.  I know firsthand that a
monitor can indeed break for specific resolutions.  I recently bought
a Nokia monitor and at first I was always pressing the adjustment
buttons to bring up a display showing the current resolution and
refresh rate.  Once, I pressed the button just as the system was
changing resolutions and the screen went blank.  It would no longer
display the resolution I was changing into (640x480 BTW, which made it
unusable for full screen DOS sessions and the like).  I called Nokia
and they admitted that it was a known possibility that doing what I
did could blow a component and cause a particular resolution to stop
working.

David Alexander
alexand@tmpmp001.allied.com