Screen Resolution

I have a hp pavilion f1703 monitor.

My cousin recently bought me and installed stuff on my new computer so he had his screen resolution set to something insanely high. When I boot up my computer I get my monitor going to sleep and it says that "Warning the screen resolution is at 1920x1440, and it is recommended that I put it at this 1280x1024." From there I cannot do anything the monitor is just black, I can hear windows and what not booting up behind it though. I've tried going into safe mode and changing the resolution there and rebooting but that does nothing.

Is there another way to change the screen resolution without going all the way back to his place or using a bigger monitor?