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Title: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: XtraSmiley on March 24, 2008, 07:10:31 pm

Answer is 2nd post for future answer seekers!

Dang I finally did it, click the little galaga icon on a resolution the Betson can't display and now I've got a blank screen.

Any idea how to fix this?  I thought someone posted this before, but didn't see it using search.  Anyway, usually I would fix this by booting into Safe Mode and setting the resolution down, but that didn't do anything this time.

Several answers below!

Title: Re: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: XtraSmiley on March 24, 2008, 07:22:01 pm

OK, I'll post my own answer since I figured it out!

Press and hold F8 to go into the screen to choose "Safe Mode" for Windows, but don't choose "Safe Mode".  Choose "VGA Mode" instead. 

If there is no "VGA Mode" option (it's up near the top with last known good boot) choose "Safe Mode" and under settings  change the display to something your monitor can display. 

Then on next boot choose, "VGA mode".

When in "VGA mode", set the setting using the windows display settings as the Galaga icon won't work.

There, now this is here for when I forget how to do this again in 6 months.

Anyone know how to remove resolutions your monitor can't support from the Galaga icon?

Title: Re: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: Xb0x3r on March 24, 2008, 07:23:16 pm

I believe Quickres will still work though I have not tried. The best thing to do in my experience, is to remove the display drivers to force it back to default Windows ones. Then restart the computer and re-install the drivers.

EDIT: I don't know how to "remove resolutions your monitor can't support from the Galaga icon" (quickres.exe). Unfortunately.

Title: Re: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: divemaster127 on March 24, 2008, 08:59:37 pm

hello, I have the same exact setup you have, you do realize that the betson can only do 800 x 600 i would go into safe mode & check this, sounds like your resolution is set higher

Title: Re: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: Ummon on March 25, 2008, 05:15:15 pm

You can't negate any of the resolutions available through the avga unless you hack the drivers. If the circumstance is checking 15 and 25khz resolutions via your desktop, I don't know why people decide to do this, when you can do it in Mame and easily back out.

Title: Re: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: ahofle on March 25, 2008, 05:22:20 pm

Quote from: Xb0x3r on March 24, 2008, 07:23:16 pm

EDIT: I don't know how to "remove resolutions your monitor can't support from the Galaga icon" (quickres.exe). Unfortunately.

http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/

Title: Re: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: Ummon on March 27, 2008, 04:39:29 pm

Quote from: ahofle on March 25, 2008, 05:22:20 pm

Quote from: Xb0x3r on March 24, 2008, 07:23:16 pm

EDIT: I don't know how to "remove resolutions your monitor can't support from the Galaga icon" (quickres.exe). Unfortunately.

http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/

Ohhh. I've messed around with this a little. I'm not sure quite how it works and there's little or no documentation on it.

Title: Re: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: ahofle on March 27, 2008, 05:29:49 pm

I think it's pretty straightforward:
http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/screenshots.html

You should see a list of all resolutions supported by your card.  You simply select the ones that your monitor can not support and click remove.

Title: Re: AVGA and Beston, out of range
Post by: Ummon on March 29, 2008, 09:08:33 pm

<nods> Okay. I was thinking only one way - adding them, and was wondering if it would supercede soft15, though it didn't seem to work that way - but yeah this would work.