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desk.cpl error when I change the rez.

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by nomadh

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A few times now I have needed to upgrade a few different diamond video cards to another vid card but after the new driver installs the desktop control panel gives me no color palette choices, no frequency choices and the resolution choices are 1 of 786624 or 2 of, or 3 of, etc. It happens when the prior video card was a diamond s3 using diamond drivers. I have tried multiple new cards and none worked after the diamond. So far the only fix was to wipe and reinstall NT. Now this is the 3rd or4th time and I need a better answer than that. Anyone have one out there?
PS at the end of the reboot I get an "Error occurred in control panel c:\winnt\system32\desk.cpl

Thanks and desperation, Damon

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by mphoffar

I seem to remember with the Dialmond Video cards, that you had to change the graphics card to a PCI Compatable Graphics Adapter before removeing the card and then installing the new card and letting it detect from three.

It might not be a bad idea to rename the desk.cpl applet before changing to that. The install of the standard drive should reinstall the applet from the i386 directory.

The other thing I'd look for would be some sort of service starting up specific for diamond. Some Diamond cards had this, some did not. If something like that is kicking off in the serivces, it could cause you some headaches.

Good luck to you

Mark

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