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re: Stuck in 16 colours, 640 x 480
Sunday, February 8, 2004 at 12:29 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John
(1 messages posted)
I did find something that may help some of you. If you have windows 98 first edition,
then explore the cd. Look under Drivers/display/vga. Read the readme file and do
as it says. Note: you can copy and paste the line that it says to add.
On Sunday, February 10, 2002 at 4:22 pm, Alan wrote:
>Hi Alyssa and fellow sufferers,
>Did anyone work it out a definative answer to this, because my beast has developed
>the same complaint!
>I read through the forum replies and there seemed to be no clear cut solution -
someone
>suggested that it was the video drivers that were the wrong ones for the system
but
>I haven't changed them so why should they suddenly be the wrong ones?
>Can you remember how your problem started (I have Windows 98)? I started my computer
>and walked away, and when I came back it had switched itself off - the power light
>was off. When I turned it on again it went into safe mode (come to think of it perhaps
>the video driver was changed when it went into safe mode?). I turned it off again
>and it started to open correctly but the display was stuck in 16 colours and 640
>x 480 size. Whenever I go into settings \ display to change it, it gives me the
following
>message ...
>"System Settings Change
>You must restart your computer before the new settings will take effect.
>Do you want to restart your computer now? Y / N"
>
>Maybe that is a clue, because - as I recall - when I changed display settings previously,
>it would simply ask you something like "Do you like the settings? Y / N" and then
>the settings were saved.
>
>Getting desperate since I don't want to have to re-instal Windows!
>Regards
>Alan. Downunda
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| | |  | re: Stuck in 16 colours, 640 x 480 (John: Sun, Feb 8, 2004, 12:29 pm) |
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