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re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:23 pm Posted by GM (6055 messages posted) The monitor's not the problem , You need to (re)install the drivers for the new video card. This will give you the expanded color options you are looking for. [Reply or follow-up to this message] However.. Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:26 pm Posted by GM (6055 messages posted) That's not to say that there isn't something else going on that is causing this. The answer I gave above is the pat answer to that general question. What make is the new card ? did you check in device manager (control panel) to see if the old video card is being shown in there and if there are any conflicts with the new one...?? If the old one is still being shown there , you will have to remove it from the listing. Post back with a few more details if you could. On Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 11:55 am, Bobra Wilbanks wrote: >I have a question about Troubleshooting >Driver Problems: > >I recently upgraded from Windows 95 to 98, and from Explorer 3.0 to 5.0, then began >getting ilegal operations message during startup, and the computer always wanted >me to put in the Win98 CD to find the proper display driver. A friend said I needed >a new video card, so he installed a new PCI 8mb video card and it appeared to work >a few times. Now, suddenly Windows boots up to a low resolution 16-bit color display, >and when I go to change the settings, it only allows 2-color or 16-color as my options. > My SVGA monitor is several years old, but my friend says Windows 98 will detect >any monitor. What am I doing wrong? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:33 pm Posted by Bobstur (2225 messages posted) I wouldn't be quite so quick to dismiss the monitor as not the problem. Is the correct monitor identified in Device Manager and what is it? Bob Sturtevant  http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/ Please reply in the forum and let us know. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Monday, January 7, 2002 at 10:42 am Posted by Bobra Wilbanks (6 messages posted) That did it. In my Win.ini file, I found the path on the original video card setup pointed to WIN95Setup.EXE (should have been WIN98Setup.EXE). I re-set-up using the Win98Setup.EXE, and everything works now. Thanks. On Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:23 pm, Galaxy Master wrote: >The monitor's not the problem , >You need to (re)install the drivers for the new video >card. >This will give you the expanded color options you >are looking for. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 11:48 am Posted by Shelley Stathis (1 messages posted) We are having the same problem with not being able to display 256 colors, only having the 2-bit and 16 bit option. Everything was fine until my husband installed a video card that didn't work on our computer. We reinstalled the drivers but that didn't work so just uninstalled the whole video card and took it back to the store. We set the settings back to the old video card but are having the same problem with having no 256 color option. I looked in the Win.ini file but not sure where the problem would be. Please help. Thanks, Shelley On Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:33 pm, Bobstur wrote: >I wouldn't be quite so quick to dismiss the monitor as not the problem. Is the correct >monitor identified in Device Manager and what is it? > Bob Sturtevant > >http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/ > >Please reply in the forum and let us know. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 5:14 pm Posted by Joe (1 messages posted) This same problem has happened to me. I can only use 16 bit and 2 bit and I can not change the sizes of the windows. This all happened when I reformated. Could anyone please help me? Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Saturday, April 12, 2003 at 5:19 pm Posted by Sandy (1 messages posted) I to cannot select more then 16 colours and cannot change the screen resolution. How do I know which drivers I need to install for the monitor?? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Monday, April 14, 2003 at 3:56 am Posted by Wayne Zander (1 messages posted) I had the same problem. When you reformat you loase all drive files. All I did to fix this problem was reinstall the drivers using the CD driver disk that came with my computer. Regards, WZ On Thursday, April 10, 2003 at 5:14 pm, Joe wrote: >This same problem has happened to me. I can only use 16 bit and 2 bit and I can not >change the sizes of the windows. This all happened when I reformated. >Could anyone please help me? Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 10:04 am Posted by Sharon (1 messages posted) I'm having the same problem as well. I have re-installed the drivers that came with the computer and those don't work either! I'm not sure if I should purchase a new video card or not? Please help! Thanks!!! On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 3:56 am, Wayne Zander wrote: >I had the same problem. When you reformat you loase all drive files. All I did to >fix this problem was reinstall the drivers using the CD driver disk that came with >my computer. > >Regards, > >WZ > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 12:55 am Posted by pankaj jain (2 messages posted) in my computer 98 is running sucessfully,when i try to install vga driver from the cd provided by oem along with the motherboard.driver of vga is installed and copy file from the win98cd.when ask to restart the computer after restarting,it display a message ,there no i/o range for this device.when i cancell it computer works well and takes only 16colours.after deleting from device manager.now i try to load the driver of vga by giving setup.exe command from the cd,now it shows softwere error,consult your administrator.tell me the appropriate solution,so icould rectify the problem. thanking you. pankaj [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Thursday, July 3, 2003 at 2:59 pm Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) Well even I have the same problem.My monitor also displays 2 and 16 bit colours only.I tried dowloading driver softwares from many sites. But still it aint working.Can anyone help me out. On Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 12:55 am, pankaj jain wrote: >in my computer 98 is running sucessfully,when i try to install vga driver from the >cd provided by oem along with the motherboard.driver of vga is installed and copy >file from the win98cd.when ask to restart the computer >after restarting,it display a message ,there no i/o range for this device.when i >cancell it computer works well and takes only 16colours.after deleting from device >manager.now i try to load the driver of vga by giving setup.exe command from the >cd,now it shows softwere >error,consult your administrator.tell me the appropriate solution,so icould rectify >the problem. >thanking you. >pankaj [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 8:49 am Posted by Sam Guest (3 messages posted) Well iam having the same problem too - my pc only gives out 2 bit and 16 bit - wot will i do? On Thursday, July 3, 2003 at 2:59 pm, Mike wrote: >Well even I have the same problem.My monitor also displays 2 and 16 bit colours only.I >tried dowloading driver softwares from many sites. But still it aint working.Can >anyone help me out. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 10:22 pm Posted by John Avina (1 messages posted) Same problem here. I have a computer that definately has SVGA, the OS broke, so I reformatted, and reinstalled win98 and it gives only 16 colors and I cannot change resolution. I wish someone would give us a clue what to do. On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at 8:49 am, Sam Guest wrote: > >Well iam having the same problem too - my pc only gives out 2 bit and 16 bit - wot >will i do? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 3:06 pm Posted by Wayne (1 messages posted) I had the same problem before. I upgrated from 95 to 98 and lost the 32-bit true color. I found out the correct driver for my integrated video card (it is also called Graphics Adaptor) and got it from the manufacturer's site and problem solved. On Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 11:55 am, Bobra Wilbanks wrote: >I have a question about Troubleshooting >Driver Problems: > >I recently upgraded from Windows 95 to 98, and from Explorer 3.0 to 5.0, then began >getting ilegal operations message during startup, and the computer always wanted >me to put in the Win98 CD to find the proper display driver. A friend said I needed >a new video card, so he installed a new PCI 8mb video card and it appeared to work >a few times. Now, suddenly Windows boots up to a low resolution 16-bit color display, >and when I go to change the settings, it only allows 2-color or 16-color as my options. > My SVGA monitor is several years old, but my friend says Windows 98 will detect >any monitor. What am I doing wrong? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Friday, February 11, 2005 at 12:16 am Posted by clint (3 messages posted) I have a similar problem with the resolution and colour settings. I just reinstalled win98SE from scratch and found that the only screen settings was 16 and 2 bit and 640 x 480 pixels. I have nvidia riva tnt installed and it appears in the device manager. Do you have any tips that could solve this problem Thankyou. On Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 10:22 pm, John Avina wrote: >Same problem here. I have a computer that definately has SVGA, the OS broke, so >I reformatted, and reinstalled win98 and it gives only 16 colors and I cannot change >resolution. I wish someone would give us a clue what to do. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' Monday, March 28, 2005 at 7:28 pm Posted by lawrence (3 messages posted) I had the same problem. I downloaded and installed the correct, updated graphics driver (in this case, for an intel 3d agp chipset) and it worked fine after that. On Friday, February 11, 2005 at 12:16 am, clint wrote: >I have a similar problem with the resolution and colour settings. I just reinstalled >win98SE from scratch and found that the only screen settings was 16 and 2 bit and >640 x 480 pixels. I have nvidia riva tnt installed and it appears in the device >manager. Do you have any tips that could solve this problem > >Thankyou. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: However.. Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 2:37 pm Posted by Phil (1 messages posted) Same problem. Pls help. Thx On Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 12:26 pm, GM wrote: > >That's not to say that there isn't something else >going on that is causing this. >The answer I gave above is the pat answer to that >general question. > >What make is the new card ? >did you check in device manager (control panel) to >see if the old video card is being shown in there >and if there are any conflicts with the new one...?? > >If the old one is still being shown there , you will have >to remove it from the listing. > >Post back with a few more details if you could. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum