monitor resolution problem

I used to be on 1280x1024
but i restarted my PC one day and now it's stuck on 1024x768
i have my video card and monitor drivers updated
i have my refresh rate on maxmimum
i deleted system32
and yes my video card is compatible with that monitor resolution

I also appear to have achieved 1KGET on the first post

Your refresh rate might be the problem. Certain Khz's can't be used with certain resolutions.

Try lowering the refresh rate, and then change resolutions again.

I've tried that, and nothing has changed.
i fear i may never be able to use 1280x1024

end your life

Try killing yourself.

Try yelling at your computer intimidate it into working properly

buy more ram

so does every post here get 1KGET?

>>1
For mostly obscure hardware reasons, early DRAM/VRAM
graphics controller implementations favored horizontal
resolutions that were a multiple of the row size. 1280 is
divisible by 256, the row size of a 64K DRAM.

One of those obscure reasons was address translation. If you
form the linear framebuffer address as (2048*y)+x, it made
doing blt hardware much easier: just map x and y onto the
appropriate row and column bits.

Another of those reasons was being able to load the video
shift registers at the same times each line. This made the timing
control easier to do in the logic of the day (think MSI counters
and gates.)

Modern gfx conrollers refresh the display using periodic burst
DRAM access instead of actual shift registers; and they have
hardware to help deal with the x-y to linear address translation.
So the whole issue of row size pretty much goes away.

>>!
DO A BARREL ROLL

Wait a second... You DELETED system32 and still expect your PC to work?

i went pee pee