Expert: Bobbert - 10/22/2007

Question
Bobbert, hello.  I had company today and found myself having to leave my work to do something for them, (Work at home = Available to Bother at any time).  One of the children, 12 years of age, picked up an incense stick that had burnt out and dropped the ash in my laser keyboard, or so she said.  When I got back into my office area I found her brushing the keyboard with a soft shoe brush.  The brush was clean.  I lost it, I asked the mother to take her children and drop them off at the zoo and call before she came again so I could lock the doors.

Not only had the child closed out and lost four chapters of my new novel but when I moved the mouse later to wake the computer up the screen is upside down.  I know this is not your area of expertise but I would sure appreciate the help.  

I am an expert here as well and would be happy to reciprocate.

HELP!!

Janet

Answer
Upside down as in your desktop is oriented similar to this?

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/152/exampleyd7.jpg

Thats fixed by going into the graphics driver and de-selecting 180* Rotation, most newer versions of graphics drivers have a task-bar (down by the clock) icon that you can right click and chose these options, on nVidia drivers (only can list nVidia step-by-step because thats what I'm sitting in front of right now, ATI and Intel are nearly the exact same thing though) right click the driver icon in the task bar (nVidia's is a green eye/box shape, if you hover over it, it will display NVIDIA Settings as a tool-top, ATI's is a red on white box, and Intel's looks sort of like a monitor)

right click, and you'll see your graphics adapter, move the pointer to that, that will expand to a new menu, go to rotation Settings, choose "No Rotation"

Intel and ATI drivers are very similar, they may have a slightly different procedure for getting to the rotation settings (I believe Intel's is actually on the menu that opens from the first right click, and ATI's might be on the first menu as well).

Hope this helps, if you still aren't getting it, just provide some information on the graphics adapter your PC has, and I'll get you a link to the correct driver, and we'll just re-install the drivers (I know it sounds drastic, but its honestly much faster than fighting through numerous windows with a 180* rotation applied).

-bob