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Stuck in 16 color mode
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Stuck in 16 color mode
Monday, May 29, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Posted by Bill
(9 messages posted)
I can't get out of 16-color mode under the display settings. Even when I go and change
it to one of the other options it reverts right back to 16 colors. I have tried reinstalling
the video card driver and according to device manager there are no problems with
it (no yellow exclamation point). I have also checked msconfig under the advanced
settings to see if 640X480X16 was checked. It wasn't. I don't know what else to do.
I've tried searching on google for this problem and those were the two solutions
that I found. Anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks.
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re: Stuck in 16 color mode
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 12:07 am
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|I have tried reinstalling the video card driver
|and according to device manager there are no problems with it
|(no yellow exclamation point).
| Bill
Delete it, reboot, THEN reinstall it.
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re: Stuck in 16 color mode
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 8:46 am
Posted by Larry
(1364 messages posted)
Can you get a deeper color pallette if you set a lower resolution? If so, then there's
probably no problem with the driver and it's just that your display adapter has too
little memory. Many older machines have only two or four MB of video RAM, so are
unable to support over 800x600 resolution at greter than 16 bit depth. Keep in mind
that doesn't mean just 16 colors though. You can get a lot of different colors with
16 bits per pixel. I'm refurbushing an eight year old PII-300 machine right now and
when using 800x600 can get 24 bit color, but when using 1024x768 it only does 16
bit. The display looks perfectly fine though at 16 bits/pixel. With a given amount
of video memory (unless you have lots of it), there's always a trade off between
resolution and color pallette depth.
On Monday, May 29, 2006 at 11:45 pm, Bill wrote:
>I can't get out of 16-color mode under the display settings. Even when I go and
change
>it to one of the other options it reverts right back to 16 colors. I have tried
reinstalling
>the video card driver and according to device manager there are no problems with
>it (no yellow exclamation point). I have also checked msconfig under the advanced
>settings to see if 640X480X16 was checked. It wasn't. I don't know what else to
do.
>I've tried searching on google for this problem and those were the two solutions
>that I found. Anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks.
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re: Stuck in 16 color mode
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:22 am
Posted by Bill
(9 messages posted)
Ok, I went and did that. It installed the video card driver, then when I restarted
again it installed a plug and play monitor from C:\WINDOWS\INF\MONITOR.INF. Then
I got an error that says: "There is a problem with your display settings. The adapter
type is incorrect, or the current settings do not work with your hardware." which
I now get everytime I boot up the computer. It takes me to the display settings,
but whatever I change it to it just reverts to 800X600 with 16 colors. Any suggestions?
On Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 12:07 am, gewg_ wrote:
>|I have tried reinstalling the video card driver
>|and according to device manager there are no problems with it
>|(no yellow exclamation point).
>| Bill
>
>Delete it, reboot, THEN reinstall it.
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re: Stuck in 16 color mode
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:32 am
Posted by Bill
(9 messages posted)
No, I tried to change the resolution, but it just reverts back to 800X600 with 16
colors.
On Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 8:46 am, Larry wrote:
>Can you get a deeper color pallette if you set a lower resolution? If so, then there's
>probably no problem with the driver and it's just that your display adapter has
too
>little memory. Many older machines have only two or four MB of video RAM, so are
>unable to support over 800x600 resolution at greter than 16 bit depth. Keep in mind
>that doesn't mean just 16 colors though. You can get a lot of different colors with
>16 bits per pixel. I'm refurbushing an eight year old PII-300 machine right now
and
>when using 800x600 can get 24 bit color, but when using 1024x768 it only does 16
>bit. The display looks perfectly fine though at 16 bits/pixel. With a given amount
>of video memory (unless you have lots of it), there's always a trade off between
>resolution and color pallette depth.
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