I am at my wits end.....please help! After installing new hard drive....comp. is extremely slow.....creeping. My display settings have one 16 bit color and a 2 bit color setting. Cannot set in 256 color. Would appreciate any help. Thanks

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Did you install the motherboard drivers? If so then reinstall 98 , but first do a format and make sure the format is with the start up disk format. D


On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 6:03 pm, April wrote:
>I am at my wits end.....please help!
>After installing new hard drive....comp. is extremely slow.....creeping. My display
>settings have one 16 bit color and a 2 bit color setting. Cannot set in 256 color.
> Would appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks

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Well, first of all the color is due to the fact that you need to load the correct driver for your video. You will need to find out what kind of video adapter is in your computer and then get drivers for it. Did your computer come with driver disks for your hardware?


On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 6:03 pm, April wrote:
>I am at my wits end.....please help!
>After installing new hard drive....comp. is extremely slow.....creeping. My display
>settings have one 16 bit color and a 2 bit color setting. Cannot set in 256 color.
> Would appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks

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Aside from your drivers, how much Ram do you have? Most people don't know it, but you have to have at least 32 mb of Ram, or 98 will run ungodly slow. Maybe some Ram has gone bad, too. Check your startup.


On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 6:03 pm, April wrote:
>I am at my wits end.....please help!
>After installing new hard drive....comp. is extremely slow.....creeping. My display
>settings have one 16 bit color and a 2 bit color setting. Cannot set in 256 color.
> Would appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks

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Hi, I have the same problem. Could you please let me know if you fix it? Thanks.


On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 6:03 pm, April wrote:
>I am at my wits end.....please help!
>After installing new hard drive....comp. is extremely slow.....creeping. My display
>settings have one 16 bit color and a 2 bit color setting. Cannot set in 256 color.
> Would appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks

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>Hi,
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>I have the same problem. Could you please let me know if you fix it?
>Thanks.
>chris ruff
>
>

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hi i have the same problem but my ram is at 32mb, i know the vga i have is sis 6326 but i cannot find a free download to upgrade it, can u please help!!


On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 6:46 am, chris ruff wrote:
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>Hi,
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>I have the same problem. Could you please let me know if you fix it?
>Thanks.
>chris ruff
>
>

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go to

http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=87215

this is a Windows ME driver, but works with 98se. I just installed it, and it seems to work fine. regards...


On Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 11:51 am, stacey wrote:
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>hi i have the same problem but my ram is at 32mb, i know the vga i have is sis 6326
>but i cannot find a free download to upgrade it, can u please help!!
>

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Before you downloaded from this site, did you backup your drivers that were already installed? Please tell me how to backup my drivers before I download. Thanks.


On Wednesday, April 21, 2004 at 12:17 pm, David wrote:
>go to
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>http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=87215
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>this is a Windows ME driver, but works with 98se. I just installed it, and it seems
>to work fine.
>
>regards...
>
>
>
>

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It gets too hard to find addons to threads this old, and you just don't get much variety in answers offered.

Unless you choose to run individual "Uninstall" procedures, the old drivers are still stored on the hard drive after you get new ones to use. From the Device Manager, you can look at the Properties for various plug and play devices requiring software drivers, write down the names of the current drivers, and use Windows Explorer to make copies of those into a new, separate folder on the hard drive.

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Kiwi

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On Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 12:33 am, Dorothy Barnes wrote:
>Please tell me how to backup my drivers before I download. Thanks.
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after a clean boot i only have 2 & 16 colors, how do i reinstall 256 & true color?


On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 6:03 pm, April wrote:
>I am at my wits end.....please help!
>After installing new hard drive....comp. is extremely slow.....creeping. My display
>settings have one 16 bit color and a 2 bit color setting. Cannot set in 256 color.
> Would appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks

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|after a clean boot i only have 2 & 16 colors,
|how do i reinstall 256 & true color?
| gordon walker

For future reference:
It's OK to start your own thread.
Tacking on to a 2-year-old thread that is already 10 posts long
isn't the best plan.


The easiest way to reinstall a video driver is
cache of www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1111704531

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My display recently messed up badly too. I didn't upgrade or install anything. But all of the pictures or colors I see always appear with dots(obviously because I cannot change to 256-bit color). When i try to change settings it restarts and when I'm back on the setting remain on 16-bit color.. I've heard many thigs that it could be..such as the monitor itself, and in my own opinion the adapter..Anyone who has had this problem and had it fixed please lend some advice..thanks much!

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Hollyann wrote:
|My display recently messed up badly too.

In case you missed it the 1st time:
For future reference:
It's OK to start your own thread.
Tacking on to a 2-year-old thread
that is already 10 posts long
isn't the best plan.

The easiest way to reinstall a video driver is
www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1111704531


You might at least read the post to which you are responding.

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Hello im Ryan I have a question after rebooting my computer my computer only has 2 and 16 colors. I want to find the quickest and easiest way to fix this. It would be greatly appriciated. Also my screen size refuses to move from 640x480 please respond to these question as soon as possible I'd really and honestly appriciate it thank you!

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