My roommate tells me that, just last night while drunk, he hit some random keys on his keyboard and somehow his display turned upside down! How the hell is this possible?? What I’m saying is he now has to put his CRT monitor upside down – it’s really quite funny. He just showed it to me. So the question is 1.) how could he have done this?? and 2.) how do we fix it? lol.
Does he have an nVidia card? If so there’s options in the little tray icon for screen rotation.
No he has a Dell PC which came with some integrated video card
Answer is…
does the the display appear upsidown in all video modes (resolutions, e.g. 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768) ?
it may restore the grafix if you uninstall the grafx drivers then reinstall the drivers, possibly installing new drivers
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never even touch your PC while drunk[ot]i know its inappropreate but, LOL[/ot]
another Edit:
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Does he have an nVidia card? If so there’s options in the little tray icon for screen rotation.
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it may have a utility to control the screens rotation anyway
Edit: what grafx chipset is it ?
will get back to u on all that
Hold ctrl+alt and press the UP arrow key.
Try that.
Have some fun.
Mike
Wow… that really works.. Pressing down key make it upside down and up key to get it in the same position…
We do it to the new guys PC’s at my workplace while they’re on their breaks…
And what do they say when they see their desktop upside down…??
And what do they say when they see their desktop upside down…??
“wtf omg lol rofl… help :(”
Lol… its a good idea. I might try it on my workstation and ask my admin if he knows about it nd his reactions towards it…haha!
Watch him go and turn the monitor upside-down… And his admin pride will make him say “That monitor is a special edition one… From Japan… They read things er… Upside-down…” runs away
haha…exactly!
Alright well that solved it! But why doesn’t it do anything on mine?? I try it and nothing happens. And I tried it on my laptop as well – nothing there either. 
Hotkeys differ depending on your VGA, laptop model, or desktop manufacturer. On laptops usually it has something to do with the Fn key?
Mike
Yeah laptops often have an Fn (Function?) key as they have limited space so they have keys with multiple functions, they’ll usually have some sort of brightness control, volume control, sleep function etc.
Yeah I have an fn key on the laptop. But it still doesn’t work on my desktop for some reason, even though it worked on my roommate’s desktop, who’s the one that had the “problem”. I built my desktop from parts, and I’m using a regular USB keyboard.
Yea, that key combination dont work on my computer too.
Lets c on which computers is this key working…
Its working on HP d530s with me!