Display has turned sideways

It is Dell Inspiron E1705 of my daughter with Windows XP SP3 installed. Everything was wonderful until the other night, then she was working with this computer before going to sleep. She was in bed with her computer when she is asleep. During the night, flipped it over on the computer and the screen has turned sideways. The BIOS initialization appears correctly as well as the first part of the initialization of windows, but the Welcome screen display is on the side as well as the rest of the o/s.

Does anyone have a better idea how to solve this problem that wipe the HARD drive and reinstall Windows XP?
Btk (billy the kid)

Hi btk.

Wait what he well go through start up even if it's on the side.

When finished, press the CTRL and ALT keys and then use the arrow keys to adjust the orientation of the screen.  Normally, the up arrow will do the trick, but sometimes it takes playing with arrows for a while before finding a way to recover it as you wish.  That should do it.

Good luck!

Kosh

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