Monitor during starting up: cannot display this video mode

Question

Yesterday I installed 'PC Zapper', a connection between my Dell 4700 PC and my Television. After that I can switch between my PC and TV.   When I start up my pc, now I get 2 times the notification 'cannot display this video mode'. I don't see the Dell logo. After 10 secondes the message disappears and I get in 1024x 768 resolution my Windows XP dashboard and I can do everything I want ....   But how can I get rid of the error messages .....   Thanks,   Paul

Nascar Nut72 · Answer

Since this problem happened since you installed PC Zapper, it appears that this device is causing the problem. I would suggest that you go their website and get tech support there. The only thing I can think is happening is that your system is confused as to where to send the video signal until the system get further into the boot up cycle. I would suspect that the problems would go away by removing PC Zapper.

Dell Demension 8400
3.0GHz P4 processor
250 GB SATA HD
ATI 300SE PCI Express Video Card
1901FP 19" Flat Panel
NIC card
DVD+RW 16X Drive
DVD ROM drive
56K Modem
Windows XP SP2 OS
1 GB DDR2 533MHz memory
Sound Blaster Audilogy Sound Card

Dell XPS T850r
512 MB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 3 Video card
20 GB IDE HD
30 GB IDE HD
17" Quantex CRT Monitor
NIC Card
DVD-/+RW 16x
CD-RW Drive
Sound Blaster Live Audio
Windows XP SP2 OS

Dell Inspiron 8100
1.13 Pentium III M processor
512 MB Ram
30 GB HD
15" Screen
DVD Rom Drive
CD-RW 8X Drive
Linksys Wireless Adapter
Windows XP SP2 OS

All systems networked using Linksys Wireless Router.

superpaulus · Answer

Thank you for answering. I removed the PC zapper physically (the connection from COM1) but still I get the message on my screen.   Additional information: after installing the PC zapper this problem didn't occur, but the TV screen showed black and white. For that reason I installed a new driverpackage form ATI. Resulting in a coloured TV screen (ok) and the message on my pc ....

Nascar Nut72 · Answer

If this occurred after installing the driver pack from ATI (which you didn't tell us in your original post) I would suggest that you roll your system back to the previous driver.

Right click on the desktop
Select Settings
Select Advanced
Select Adapter
Select driver
Select roll back driver

See if this will make the problem go away. At times ATI latest driver pack can create a problem that wasn't there before you installed the new drivers.

Keep me posted

superpaulus · Answer

DONE,   but still the same message! Pity ..... thanks you for helping!

Nascar Nut72 · Answer

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=FA1079260 Go here and read this, and see if this helps..... Not ready to giveup yet...

superpaulus · Answer

Sorry,   doesn't work.

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