Whenever I try to change the orientation of my tablet PC's display, I recieve
the following error: "The setting you requested cannot be supported. Open
Display in Control Panel, adjust the settings, and then try to change
orientation again." I played around with as many of the settings (i.e.
resolution, color depth, etc.) as I could, but I still got the same message
each time.

Computer info:
Acer TravelMate C100
Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005, version 2002, SP2
Video: Silicon Motion Lynx3DM

I've been searching websites for driver updates and such, but have yet to
come across anything that even references this problem. Any ideas or
solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hmm. Have you tried reinstalling your display drivers? You might even want
to grab whatever the latest driver is on the Acer site, boot the Tablet PC
into Safe Mode and then install. This will have the system use a generic
(and ugly) driver, and not the one currently installed, and allow you to
overwrite the current drivers.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"smohr2002" <smohr2002@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6B71D52A-4D55-4B81-A05E-651FB97F4C76@microsoft.com...
> Whenever I try to change the orientation of my tablet PC's display, I
> recieve
> the following error: "The setting you requested cannot be supported. Open
> Display in Control Panel, adjust the settings, and then try to change
> orientation again." I played around with as many of the settings (i.e.
> resolution, color depth, etc.) as I could, but I still got the same
> message
> each time.
>
> Computer info:
> Acer TravelMate C100
> Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005, version 2002, SP2
> Video: Silicon Motion Lynx3DM
>
> I've been searching websites for driver updates and such, but have yet to
> come across anything that even references this problem. Any ideas or
> solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Thanks, Chris, it worked after some trial and error. I went to the Acer
website and downloaded a driver for the C100. When I went to install it in
safe mode, I got an error message stating something about the 16-bit files
used by the command prompt weren't suitable for running dos and windows
programs. So, I restarted normally and used device manager to manually
update the driver from a list. I had to tell it where to find a file:
smiminib.sys. A quick search located it in the folder I had unzipped the
driver files to after downloading. The wizard found and used the file and it
seems to work fine now.

"Chris H" wrote:

> Hmm. Have you tried reinstalling your display drivers? You might even want
> to grab whatever the latest driver is on the Acer site, boot the Tablet PC
> into Safe Mode and then install. This will have the system use a generic
> (and ugly) driver, and not the one currently installed, and allow you to
> overwrite the current drivers.
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
> "smohr2002" <smohr2002@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6B71D52A-4D55-4B81-A05E-651FB97F4C76@microsoft.com...
> > Whenever I try to change the orientation of my tablet PC's display, I
> > recieve
> > the following error: "The setting you requested cannot be supported. Open
> > Display in Control Panel, adjust the settings, and then try to change
> > orientation again." I played around with as many of the settings (i.e.
> > resolution, color depth, etc.) as I could, but I still got the same
> > message
> > each time.
> >
> > Computer info:
> > Acer TravelMate C100
> > Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005, version 2002, SP2
> > Video: Silicon Motion Lynx3DM
> >
> > I've been searching websites for driver updates and such, but have yet to
> > come across anything that even references this problem. Any ideas or
> > solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>

Good deal. Glad you got it working properly. Thanks for posting back with
the information.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"smohr2002" <smohr2002@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DC34DD8F-DB80-471E-9C3D-EAE3AE0AEDFF@microsoft.com...
> Thanks, Chris, it worked after some trial and error. I went to the Acer
> website and downloaded a driver for the C100. When I went to install it
> in
> safe mode, I got an error message stating something about the 16-bit files
> used by the command prompt weren't suitable for running dos and windows
> programs. So, I restarted normally and used device manager to manually
> update the driver from a list. I had to tell it where to find a file:
> smiminib.sys. A quick search located it in the folder I had unzipped the
> driver files to after downloading. The wizard found and used the file and
> it
> seems to work fine now.
>
> "Chris H" wrote:
>
>> Hmm. Have you tried reinstalling your display drivers? You might even
>> want
>> to grab whatever the latest driver is on the Acer site, boot the Tablet
>> PC
>> into Safe Mode and then install. This will have the system use a generic
>> (and ugly) driver, and not the one currently installed, and allow you to
>> overwrite the current drivers.
>> --
>> Chris H.
>> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
>> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
>> http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
>> Associate Expert
>> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>
>> "smohr2002" <smohr2002@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6B71D52A-4D55-4B81-A05E-651FB97F4C76@microsoft.com...
>> > Whenever I try to change the orientation of my tablet PC's display, I
>> > recieve
>> > the following error: "The setting you requested cannot be supported.
>> > Open
>> > Display in Control Panel, adjust the settings, and then try to change
>> > orientation again." I played around with as many of the settings (i.e.
>> > resolution, color depth, etc.) as I could, but I still got the same
>> > message
>> > each time.
>> >
>> > Computer info:
>> > Acer TravelMate C100
>> > Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005, version 2002, SP2
>> > Video: Silicon Motion Lynx3DM
>> >
>> > I've been searching websites for driver updates and such, but have yet
>> > to
>> > come across anything that even references this problem. Any ideas or
>> > solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>>