cant see nothing but lines of color

[tartantiny]

i have windows 95 on a 300 mhtz acer aspire pentium 2 ok what haps is a friend was messin with my pc an on the desk top all of a sudden u couldnt see all the icons for windows so he went to contol panel then display then settings an apperance an started decreasing horizontal then it turned to all squggly lines of color an u coundt see anythin i tried hittin esc to cancel those settings but it didnt work i rebooted still lines of color tried messing with monitor buttons an still the same lines of color sometimes moving sometimes not i cant go back in to control panel to increase what he decreased due to the fact u cant see anything but th lines i cant even use my recovery cd to reforamt cuz u cant read what to do due to the fact of lines .. any one know how i can fix this a new monitor wont work cuz it was changed theu the control panel not the monitor dials.. pleaseeeeeeeeeee helllp

[tb525]

Have you tried booting into safe mode to access the Control Panel > Display?

[tartantiny]

ok ur talkin to idiot when it comes to these things how do i go into safe mode an then to control panel sorry

[tb525]

Here's a little tutorial on how to boot into safe mode.

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/tu...rial.php/id/24

It may not work, you may not have all the display options avaliable in safe mode. If you don't, we will have to re-install the video drivers.

Do you know what video card you have? If you don't know, while you are in safe mode, open the control panel and click on 'system'.
Then click the 'device manager' tab. Click the + next to 'Display Adapters'. What is listed?

[tartantiny]

tb525 thank u so much that worked ur the best