My system has been working in true colour 32-bit, but
sometime the other day, the display has switched itself
to 16-bit colours, on a 640x480 screen. Can someone help
me with this?

thanks

Lee

sorry to double post like this, but i forgot to finish
the last one. It will not move off the 16bit x 640 x 480
colour scheme, when it used to be on a 32 bit colour
scheme.

thanks for any help

Lee

What kind of video card do you have and did you install the drivers?

Alias

"Lee" escribió

"START, Run, MSConfig, Advanced button". If checked, then uncheck "VGA
640x480x16", & reboot.

"Control Panel, Display, Settings tab". Select as you wish from the
Colors dropdown menu & the Size slider. Really, you should need nothing
higher than "High Color (16 bit)", for speed/resource considerations.

If you move the Screen Area slider to 1024x768 there, be sure to click
the Advanced button, & select Large fonts.

Try to get your colors/size at least twice that way. If it continues to
fail, you may need to reinstall your Display Adapter...

.......Quote..........
The first thing to do is to remove the video adapter you have
installed. Right-click on the desktop; choose "Properties" from the
drop-down menu; select "Settings;" click on the "Advanced" button; and
click on "Adapter". An adapter is a program that tells Windows how to
deal with a specific video card. Make note of the adapter that is
currently installed. Then, change the adapter to "Standard Display
Adapter (VGA)" and restart the system.

[That is: Click "Change, Next, bolt 'Display a List...', Next, bolt
'Show all hardware', scroll left pane to top, select '(Standard display
types)', select 'Standard Display Adapter (VGA)' in right pane, click
'Next'"... PCR]

This will remove the current adapter and replace it with a generic VGA
adapter that works with all video cards. You will not like VGA because
it supports only 16 colors, but the purpose of installing it is to get
rid of whatever was there before.

Next, return to the adapter screen and install an adapter that matches
your video card. This may or may not be the adapter that you are
using now. Examine the materials you received with your computer to
see if they include a CD-ROM or floppy disk that contains the correct
video adapter. Or go to the Gateway website and see if they have an
adapter for you to download. Or check the website of the company that
made your video card.

Bill Starbuck (MVP)
.......End....of quote....

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
"Lee" <hells_tourniquet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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| sorry to double post like this, but i forgot to finish
| the last one. It will not move off the 16bit x 640 x 480
| colour scheme, when it used to be on a 32 bit colour
| scheme.
|
| thanks for any help
|
| Lee

i think i have a Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA), also
i might have uninstalled the drivers by accident. Do yiu
know where i could get the drivers? or if this isnt the
problem, could you suggest what is?

Thanks loads!!

Lee

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Try what PCR suggested and it that doesn't work, they would come on a CD
with your video card or be on your motherboard's CD if the video card is a
part of the motherboard.

or if this isnt the
Read PCR's post.

Alias