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11-28-2003, 04:12 AM
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Graphic adapter or monitor????
My friend gave me his computer to format the hard drive and reinstall Win98 and all went well. only thing is he only gave me the bare computer box, nothing else, no monitor or any other peripherals. I downloaded the drivers for the sound card from the internet and got the sound working okay.
I plugged the computer into an old monitor that I had and windows detected the monitor and loaded standard driver for the monitor. The resolution was 640 X 480 and 16 bit color and I could not change the settings for this. I didn't load the driver for the monitor cos it wasn't the monitor that my friend was going to use anyway. so I returned the computer to him and told him that the driver for his monitor would have to be installed for him to get full functional graphics. He rang me yesterday and told me that he didn't have the disk for his monitor and will bring the computer and the monitor to me to fix it. because he is only getting 640 X 480 resolutions on his screen and no choice of color settings other than the one that it is set on at the moment. Now I got to thinking, will this problem simply be the monitor needs the correct driver to show full resolution and color options or is it the display adapter needing a different driver than the one installed at present. He is bringing the computer over this week-end so I could do with some advice on this one guys. should I just run Belarc to find out the manufacturer of the monitor and download the driver for it if I can or is there some other solutiion?. He hasn't got any of the installation disks that came with the computer.
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11-28-2003, 07:39 AM
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If he's only getting 16 colours with no other options, there is a display driver problem... if he is getting the proper colour settings, but can only get 640x480, then it's a monitor driver problem.
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11-28-2003, 11:02 AM
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Sounds to me like this more likely a display addapter(video card?) driver needed. The windows driver is minimal at best.
So crack open the case and modern cards there might be as sticker on the front or back telling what the card is, or if it is an old card you will have to read off the GPU. L J
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11-28-2003, 04:46 PM
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Thanks guys.
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