Donna Fraser - Web Developer

Reset your Xbox 360 Display Settings

Are you having issues with your Xbox 360 display settings on your TV and are using the Xbox 360 VGA cable?

A message saying “no video signal is received” this is since you changed to the higher resolution which your TV doesn’t support and you can’t seem to reset it back to default?

Well I was silly enough to have done just that and couldn’t get it back to the default settings so I managed to find this useful tutorial on the Microsoft site to be very helpful, good luck guys!

Instructions

To reset the display settings of the Xbox 360 console to the default settings, follow these simple steps:

1. Remove any discs from the disc tray
2. Turn the console off
3. Turn the console on

Note: If you are using an Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, turn the console on by using the Xbox Guide button on the controller.

Note: Make sure that you use the player 1 controller when you do this. The player 1 controller is the controller where the upper left quadrant-light is on.

As the console starts, press and hold the Y button, and then pull the right trigger at the same time. This causes the Xbox Dashboard to reset the display settings to the default settings and then automatically restarts the console. So it’s OK when the Xbox 360 console restarts.

Source Reference:   Microsoft Help & Support

2 comments September 19th, 2008

Zone Alarm True Vector shut down problem?

Are you having issues with Zone Alarm’s Internet Security Suite? Does it keep prompting you with a warning message saying “The True Vector Internet Monitor has shut down. Do you wish to restart it Yes or No?”.

No matter how many times you do this it still keeps coming up? Well I was having this same issue today when I recently updated to Zone Alarm’s newer software update.  What I discovered was if you do the following method below it seems to solve the issue for the time being, so hope this helps folks!

Instructions

• Boot the PC into Safe Mode (Press F8 after the beep when booting)
• Search for the folder (C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs)
• Delete any files ending in .tmp .ldb or .rdb
• Reboot the PC

6 comments September 5th, 2008

Google’s take on the Web Browser Market

Google Incorporated will launch its own free open source Web Browser, called “Chrome”. This will be available for download on the morning of Wednesday 3rd September 2008, Pacific Standard Time (PST) in over 100 countries.

This is Google’s pet project to compete against the web browser market of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox’s dominance on the overall web.

Google Chrome Comic Book is a detailed 38-page comic adaptation explaining the main features what their web browser has to offer. The five main features are: Stability, Speed, Search and the User Experience, Security and Standards.

Google Chrome looks to be clean, simple and fast while also adapting to newer applications. There is only a Windows Beta release so far but they are working hard on building versions for Mac & Linux as well.

Download the new   Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows

3 comments September 2nd, 2008