[Gateway Laptop] viewing area flipped 90 degrees

Running Vista home premium on M series m-6841 gateway laptop

I was cleaning up my screen and keyboard with windex, foolishly, with
the computer on, when somehow in the course of working on the keyboard
I managed to flip the viewing area on the screen 90 degrees so that
what was the short dimension (up-down) is now the long dimension
(left/right).

Some combination if key press' will put it back to normal I guess.
But looking hard at the icons on the keys... its not at all clear
which ones.

I didn't want to spend a day trying to find something out from gateway
tech help thru an India based technician setup so thought I'd ask here
and see if some kind gateway laptop user might know how to reset the
viewing area.

Harry open up control panel and look for your video cards control panel. If
it is an Nvidia card then it will be marked 'Nvidia Control Panel'. Click on
this and then in the 'display' section click on the 'rotate display' option.
You can now rotate the screen back to its normal position.

ATI graphics card (ATI Catalyst Control Center) has a similar feature which
you can use to correct the problem.

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"Harry Putnam" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Running Vista home premium on M series m-6841 gateway laptop
>
> I was cleaning up my screen and keyboard with windex, foolishly, with
> the computer on, when somehow in the course of working on the keyboard
> I managed to flip the viewing area on the screen 90 degrees so that
> what was the short dimension (up-down) is now the long dimension
> (left/right).
>
> Some combination if key press' will put it back to normal I guess.
> But looking hard at the icons on the keys... its not at all clear
> which ones.
>
> I didn't want to spend a day trying to find something out from gateway
> tech help thru an India based technician setup so thought I'd ask here
> and see if some kind gateway laptop user might know how to reset the
> viewing area.

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:34:15 -0500, Harry Putnam <>
wrote:

> Running Vista home premium on M series m-6841 gateway laptop
>
> I was cleaning up my screen and keyboard with windex, foolishly, with
> the computer on, when somehow in the course of working on the keyboard
> I managed to flip the viewing area on the screen 90 degrees so that
> what was the short dimension (up-down) is now the long dimension
> (left/right).
>
> Some combination if key press' will put it back to normal I guess.
> But looking hard at the icons on the keys... its not at all clear
> which ones.
>
> I didn't want to spend a day trying to find something out from gateway
> tech help thru an India based technician setup so thought I'd ask here
> and see if some kind gateway laptop user might know how to reset the
> viewing area.


The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video
card, to help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait
orientation. Almost certainly you accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and
some arrow key.

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"John Barnett MVP" <> writes:

> Harry open up control panel and look for your video cards control
> panel. If it is an Nvidia card then it will be marked 'Nvidia Control
> Panel'. Click on this and then in the 'display' section click on the
> rotate display' option. You can now rotate the screen back to its
> normal position.
>
> ATI graphics card (ATI Catalyst Control Center) has a similar feature
> which you can use to correct the problem.
>
> --

"Ken Blake, MVP" <> writes:

[...]

> The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video
> card, to help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait
> orientation. Almost certainly you accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and
> some arrow key.

Thanks to both of you... yup.... It works.... I kept thinking it would
involve the FIN key that you see on laptops...That it was some item
related to the laptop itself. But of course it would be the Video card.

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:56:14 -0500, Harry Putnam <>
wrote:

> "John Barnett MVP" <> writes:
>
> > Harry open up control panel and look for your video cards control
> > panel. If it is an Nvidia card then it will be marked 'Nvidia Control
> > Panel'. Click on this and then in the 'display' section click on the
> > rotate display' option. You can now rotate the screen back to its
> > normal position.
> >
> > ATI graphics card (ATI Catalyst Control Center) has a similar feature
> > which you can use to correct the problem.
> >
> > --
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" <> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > The ability to rotate the screen image is a feature of your video
> > card, to help it work with monitors that rotate to portrait
> > orientation. Almost certainly you accidentally pressed Ctrl-Alt, and
> > some arrow key.
>
> Thanks to both of you... yup.... It works.... I kept thinking it would
> involve the FIN key that you see on laptops...That it was some item
> related to the laptop itself. But of course it would be the Video card.


You're welcome. Glad to help.


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