>Friends -
>
>Richard had the answer to MY problem (this might not be everyones solution) in an 
>earlier posting he wrote ...
>
>This normally happens when the drivers for your video card are not the correct ones. 
>Have a look at them and make sure they are the correct ones for your graphics card. 
>If they are not, go to the manufacturers site and get the right ones and install 
>them. 
>
>I went to start \ settings \ Control panel \ Display \ Settings \ Advanced \ Adapter 
>.... and hit the change button. From memory, I got a dialog box that asked me if 
>i wanted the system to search for the latest driver or if I wanted to specify one 
>myself. I chose the first option, after making sure that I had the "Product recovery 
>and diagnostics CD Rom" which came with the computer, in the drive.
>The system chugged and whirred and said it was finished and would have to restart 
>and when it did - you beauty! - it was back on Hi-color 1800x600! What I think happened 
>was that when it went into "Safe Mode" I remember it saying that it only loaded 
the 
>minimum of drivers, so when I restarted from there I had lost my video driver.
>If this doesn't solve your problem at least you can cross this off your list of 
possible 
>faults. Thanx Richard and all those who responded.
>Cheers
>Alan, Downunda

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