Windows XP: Alt + F5??

[CrackaLackaZe]

I accidently hit Alt and F5 together, and my screen blinked black. What is this supposed to do?

 

[minendo]

It does nothing.

 

[AFB]

Nothin for me.

 

[Crusty]

It does it on mine, and then it brings up an ATI box asking if I wanted to keep the new applied settings...I clicked no..

anybody know what it does?

 

[imported_vr6]

nothin.

 

[MattCo]

If you are on a laptop, the Fn (right by alt) + F5 will switch to your external monitor port. Maybe that is what happened.

-MC

 

[amcdonald]

you probably forgot to breathe and blacked out momentarily.

 

[Bootprint]

Sends a Printscreen to Homeland Security.

 

[WHipLAsh13]

Originally posted by: amcdonald
you probably forgot to breathe and blacked out momentarily.

haha

 

[WobbleWobble]

Your video card drivers might have some sort of hot-key to change resolution or something.

 

[DaWhim]

nothing for me, but ctrl+f5 is refresh! did nothing

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
nothing for me, but ctrl+f5 is refresh! why would you set ctrl+f5 for refresh when you can just press f6?

F5 is refresh.

 

[Spencer278]

Yeah i get that ATI message after the screen goes black.

 

[OZEE]

On several notebooks, it toggles to the external video... It's more of a hardware/bios thing than windoze, though, I think.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Spencer278
Yeah i get that ATI message after the screen goes black.

It's an ATI hotkey then. Most likely to toggle between an external monitor and the normal monitor.

ZV

 

[MagicianBdotCom]

Probably ATI... mine goes black too.

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: Kwan1
nothin.

 

[Anubis]

nothing

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: MagicianBdotCom
Probably ATI... mine goes black too.

-=bmacd=-

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Spencer278
Yeah i get that ATI message after the screen goes black.

It's an ATI hotkey then. Most likely to toggle between an external monitor and the normal monitor.

ZV

I'm pretty sure that's what it is, but I don't have the ATI control panel thing to test it out.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
nothing for me, but ctrl+f5 is refresh! did nothing

Try just f5

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: UglyCassanova

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Spencer278
Yeah i get that ATI message after the screen goes black.

It's an ATI hotkey then. Most likely to toggle between an external monitor and the normal monitor.

ZV

I'm pretty sure that's what it is, but I don't have the ATI control panel thing to test it out.

indeed. it makes the 2nd output the primary output and blacks out your screen. I did that once and i thought my vid card broke. just rehit it and it's all good.

 

[BatmanNate]

Sweet, I can use this at home. My secondary is a 33" that I use for movies and I always have to open the display dialog and make it a primary manually. This will be wicked if it works.

 

[nodoubts2k]

Blinks for me too - WTF?

 

[EXman]

brown acid on the keys?