Bootup Message: "Refresh rate lower than recommended. Press "exit" to proceed."

>>>They just say it's not the drivers because this happens before Wdos loads.

I believe they are wrong. I believe the drivers are loaded but not put into play before Winodws pops up
open Control Panel > Display
Click the settings tab
Click the advanded button
Under the monitor tab change your resolution.

Aslo do this

Start > run msconfig
Click the boot.ini tag
if any of the boxes that have the / as its first character listed it here.

change the montitor resolution to something else match the monitor refresh rate to the approite refresh of the resolution this happened  at school

The message comes from the monitor itself. It is not driver-dependent. As suggested by compfixer, you need to adjust screen settings, in this case the frame rate or vertical frequency. Like, if you use 72Hz change to 85Hz (or whatever is suitable to your monitor).
/RID

Hmmm interesting. For me I can't change the resolutiong except after the driver is loaded and I am in windows. Non of my monitor controls have anythng on it to control refresh rates. So how does one change the refresh rate before windows load. Just curious.

Yeah that much I figured but how does one change the refresh rate when not in windows. I am just being curious here. A driver of sorts I believe is in play as soon as ntdetect.com is loads. I suppose one might be able to corrrect this by going into safe mode since it loads the VGA driver and change the resolution.

Perhaps I have expressed myself sloppily. I didn't mean to say that the refresh rate should be changed when not in windows - I don't think that is possible without drivers loaded. I meant that if this "warning" is coming up even when running normal screens (O/S loaded properly) the screen settings maybe ought to be adjusted. If it just pops up during POST and splash screen, it can be disregarded and disabling the alert function may be a good idea.
/RID

:)

Several of you were on the right track, but Rid stated it best:
"It may very well be that the monitor reacts to basic VGA, like the POST screen and perhaps XP splash screen and thinks that this is the signal its going to have to live with. Removing the message with "Exit" just removes the message, but doesn't change the settings, of course. Usually, the monitors have a sort of setup menu in which this "alert" can be disabled.
/RID"

I crawled through menus using the monitor buttons and found an option to disable the refresh rate warning.  All is well.

Thank you  

My pleasure!
/RID