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Old Hard Drive - Old Computer

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by albanea2

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Alright so recently I tryed to move my 2.3 Gig hard drive from an old computer to a slightly newer one. Both computers originally ran Windows 98, and I have hooked up all of the original hardware to it (keyboard, mouse, etc.).

Now, after all of the "found new hardware screens" have finished, the computer is only able to run 16 colors, when it used to have 256, if I remember corctly. Anyone have any ideas about how to fix this?

Also, I have gone through the system and all of the drivers are updated. Everything works fine except the colors.

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by the scummy one

in control panel look for Displays and then change it from 16
colors.
Does your video card not see 16 bit at least?

by albanea2

It only says either 2 colors, or 16 colors. It does not say anything about bits.

by jellimonsta

If you moved the hard drive to a different computer your video card has most likely changed.
You will need to find out what the video card is in the new system and get a driver for it.

by older mycroft

Because the video drivers in this relocated hard drive don't match the graphics chip in the 'new' computer.

You'll be looking at colours that are all murky and grainy - that's basic VGA.

Installing whatever drivers are required will bring the clarity back to the screen.

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