Monitor Only See's 16 Colors

I will start by verifying a few items, if you have already taken these steps, just skip on to the next.

1. Install the mother board / chipset drivers.
If the motherboard is a super socket 7 or newer, make sure to install the AGP mini-port driver. (Even if you are using a PCI video card.)
2. Most video card drivers require DirectX.
I recommend installing either version 7a or 8.1
3. Make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card installed.
(If you had to perform step 1 or 2, I recommend re-installing the video card driver)
4. Look for your exact monitor model in the list of monitors. (display properties / settings / advanced, monitor)
If your monitor is not listed, try the nearest "standard" monitor to the specifications of your monitor.
(Sometimes, the standard types work better than the mfg driver anyway.)

If you are still having problems, check for a posted driver at www.driverguide.com
Membership is free.
Be sure to read the notes on the driver before downloading.

Chas

First check the Display settings to make sure the monitor is properly set to SVGA
The adapter drivers will need to be reloaded,use the disk that came wit adapter or go to the graphics adapter manufacturers web site and download the lastest drivers,then reinstall the adapter driver

This is going to sound stupid, but have you installed the video driver?)crawl before you walk)

Video driver with out a doubt.

You could also check the Refresh Rate of the Video Adapter, in the Display properties. If it's not set on the Adapter Defaut try changing it to that. This helps this problem sometimes.

Patrick

I had a similar problem after upgrading from Win95 to Win98 on old Compaq. Not enough memory to display 1024X728 screen area AND have 256 colors. I could do this with Win95. (OK,the computer was so old the max memory was 48M but it's still worth a check if nothing else helps.)

On W98SE your monitor shouldn't need drivers, but may work *better* with a Samsung driver (try http://www.driverguide.com)

I strongly suspect the video card drivers are the problem here. If you have no record for "display adapter" in Control Panel/ System/ Device Manager - go to Add New Hardware, and Add your display adapter (video card) manually. You should have a CD with drivers. This should solve the problem.

Video Drivers, also without a doubt.

Start in "Safe Mode", remove every Monitor, Display Adapter, and anything in the Device Manager list that has double or multiple entries for the same thing, reboot normally and install the hardware properly. .cheers.

Videw Card went bad

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