[warning] KB982526 may kill your resolution or even more

[Marin85]

On Wednesday I performed the usual windows update and installed the latest released updates from M$ (if I remember correctly, 5 in total). After the installation was completed, I was prompted to restart the system. The system restarted, but the ThinkPad and Intel logo didn´t show up on the boot screen (not sure, maybe just dark/black screen), and the system booted into 800x600 resolution. Aero was working, but the highest available resolution in windows 7 display options was 1400x1050. I rebooted the system a few times, ThinkPad and Intel logo didn´t show up again on the boot screen, but the resolution options were extended up to 1600x1200, though not to the native resolution for my panel. Fn+F4 wasn´t working properly anymore (it put the system into hibernation mode instead of sleep mode, which has been always my default setting).

I immediately uninstalled the new updates, but this didn´t fix the issue, I also had to reinstall the graphics driver. At first I thought that there was some software conflict as I am using modded Catalyst Control Center (the driver for my card is, however, the one available through windows update), so I disabled CCC and rebooted, but it didn´t change anything. As already said, the problem was solved only after uninstalling the new updates and reinstalling the graphics driver. The ThinkPad and Intel logos are now showing up on the boot screen.

After the issue was fixed, I was curious as to which update caused the problem, so I started playing with the updates by the include/exclude principle, it took a few reboots, but it now really seems like the problem was caused by Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Update for Windows 7 x86 (KB982526). I currently have the other 4 updates installed, so far no problems, but as soon as I install the .NET 3.5 SP1 update, the same issue appears either after rebooting the machine or after resuming from sleep. Also, I found out, that a few cycles sleep-resume-sleep bring back the native resolution of my screen.

I found all this very odd, in particular I have never expected that windows updates may have any effect on the boot behavior of a machine, e.g. having black screen at boot instead of the ThinkPad and Intel logos (improper shutdown signal?), so be warned!

Cheers,

Marin

[GomJabbar]

I recently installed Windows Vista 64-bit on a desktop PC my brother gave me. After one of the Windows Updates, I was affected by the same problem. Worse, I could not click on the Apply button to change the resolution because the dialog box did not fit on the screen. I solved this by using an external TV monitor that I had connected to the S-Video port of the graphics card.

It seems really poorly designed that Windows wouldn't shrink the dialog boxes by default when using a non-native resolution. I have had the same problem using SAFE MODE before.

[ReCreate]

Usually pressing enter when at that dialog does the same as pressing apply. That's what i had done several times when i was stuck in low resolution modes.