Windows changing resolution HELP!

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Ahh. This is the second time in 24 hours that this has happened. Yesterday I posted about running my PC through an LCD TV and that only a small selection of resolutions were supported. After a Windows update, Windows decided that what I was using wasn't good enough, and it starting booting up in a resolution that my LCD TV doesn't support, so I'd get no picture. That was fine, I borrowed a monitor from the nice chap upstairs and changed the resolution myself, hey presto, it works and everything is fine.

This morning however, I turn my PC on to find that the monitor won't come out of standby, no matter how many times I click the mouse button or press the keyboard. After unplugging and plugging the TV back in it decides to work. So I go through the normal process of seeing the motherboard details, the little Windows Vista loading bar and after that complete pitch black and a message on my screen telling me my TV doesn't support that particular resolution. This leads me to suspect that Windows has yet again changed my resolution despite me changing it back yesterday.

I'm now going to have to lug a (CRT) monitor down a flight of stairs, plug it all in just to make about 5 clicks of the mouse, what I'm asking is can I make sure now that when I change the resolution that Windows isn't going to simply change it back when I need to reboot? This is causing a lot of frustration and as I don't have the funds to buy a decent monitor, nor the space to put it anywhere I'm having to run through the TV, it's a necessity. I don't want this to happen again so can somebody pleeeease help?

Cheers in advance.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Okay well the problem still hasn't gone away, I now have a different problem. I'm plugging in a CRT and it isn't coming out of standby mode. The PC is on, the fans are all spinning away and it's lit up, yet the monitor is completely blank. There's not even a no signal message, it's just a blank screen with the standby indicator flashing on and off. I've unplugged it, unplugged the PC, plugged them both back in, still nothing, unplugged the VGA cable (I'm using a VGA to DVI converter). When I first plugged it in I had a message telling me there was a boot fail or something along the lines of. Presumably because when I couldn't get my TV to display anything I held the power button in on the PC to go upstairs and borrow a monitor. Now though after restarting the computer I'm getting nothing on the monitor at all, it's refusing to come out of standby mode. I think something's wrong.