Bad Resolution for One User on Mac Mini - Help?

If you have a second display, connect the unit to it and correct the display preferences and then try again with the LCD TV.

 

You have set the screen resolution to a setting too high for your monitor. I like the other fellows suggestion. Hook it up to another monitor and reduce the resolution before hooking up to the working monitor.

I seem to recall having this problem. I hooked it up to a Dell 24" display to fix it.

 

I guess it depends how much time you have invested setting up the user. If you have an established user with files and programs, I'd think twice. If you just set the user up, then it's no biggie to do that again.

As far as I remember, account preferences that can be manipulated are access to programs, time restrictions, web sites etc.

 

There is a preference (plist) somewhere that holds the resolution. I would think a google search could find this.

Also if you unplug the monitor cable while the computer is on then plug it back in, this tends to reset the screen.

If you have another computer you could screen share in to this one.

 

Can you change it from the safe mode? I think you hold shift while booting to go into safe mode.