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10-27-2003, 09:01 PM
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screen colors and resolution
I have just installed windows 98 on a hard drive and after installing windows 98 the computer booted up and the color options I have is just 2 colors or 16 colors . I checked the drivers and hardware profiles on it and they are all good. I can not get it to give me the option for 256 colors I know it has the ability I was just running windows xp pro but just ran to slow on this machine so I went back to 98 and now i can not get it to give me the 256 color option on my pc.
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10-27-2003, 09:57 PM
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Computer Slave
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Welcome to PCMech!
Could you give some more info on your system specs. It sounds like you haven't installed the actual driver for the video card (just using the default MS ones). The Microsoft ones are very limiting so try downloading the latest ones from the manufacturer. |
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10-27-2003, 10:09 PM
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You checked the video drivers but did you update them?
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01-04-2006, 05:32 PM
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I am having the same problems here. I just downloaded the driver for my graphics card, but when I unzip it, it doesn't automatically install. I saved the upzipped files to a file, and tried to open them up, but they all say for me to choose a program for me to open them up with.
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01-05-2006, 03:17 AM
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Use the Update Driver function in device manager and point it to the folder where you unzipped the files. This assumes there's no setup.exe file in there?
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01-05-2006, 05:36 PM
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where's the device manager?
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01-05-2006, 06:08 PM
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