LatitudeD505 Screen flip

The image on the screen is completely flipped. To see properly I have to turn turn the whole machine 90% clockwise. Must be an easy fix but none of the tech guys at the office can help me.

 

Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow?

Or you can right click on the desktop > Screen Resolution > Orientation.

 

Commander Wolf. Thanks much. very easy fix indeed.
But now for the hard part...

So now for the hard part. Hope you or any of y'all can rescue me here:

...Was downloading My Dell from the Dell site got the aulauncher but it wouldn't install. Seems to have crashed. Now in the boot process I get the message: '......Windows did not start successfully A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.....' And it would not boot from any of the ‘Safe Modes’ nor ‘…Last Configuration… nor ‘…Normally’.
XP starts then kicks out immediately , but not before I see a blue screen and some numbers….

It’s going further to say…
Memory write/read failure at 280B95B8, read E409E40B expecting E40BE40B
Decreasing available memory
The amount of system memory has changed.
Strike F1 to continue, F2 to run setup utility.

On F1 the above repeats itself.
One of the ‘part time techy-sort’ at the office tried to help. Tried to boot from a CD but its saying something along the line that the ‘Partition’ is ‘Unrecognized’:

Conclusion – I have to FORMAT!!
But I got all these files there. NO BACK UP!!!

AM about to crash myself. Any suggestions.

 

Try to reseat your memory... or failing that, try to do the above with one or the other of your two(?) memory DIMMs.

 

Thanks will get back soon as to if this worked

 

Yeah sounds like your memory is shot or in need of reseating. Had that message on a Dell X1 with hair stuck in a RAM slot actually. No need to format over all your files either, just get an external IDE HDD caddy if you need to access stuff.