Invalid Format message-Please Help!

I hooked up a 26" tv monitor to my mini mac tonight. Everything was running great. I went into account settings to try to change the monitor display and make my fonts a little larger to accommodate the new monitor. The computer stopped suddenly and now all I have is a black screen that says "invalid format". Is there a way to reboot and fix this? Please advise!

jen12569 , welcome to Apple Discussions.
I believe your problem was caused by setting the display resolution too low & the LCD won't respond. If zapping PRAM doesn't fix the problem, trash the preference file com.apple.windowserver.plist
Also look at this link. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=267310
 Cheers, Tom

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