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by sw723

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When I turned my computer on this morning, there was a message: "display adapter type or current settings do not work with your hardware:. My icons are large and my display settings are 16 color 640x480 pixels. I used to have a 32 bit hi color option in settings but it is not there. I have tried to reset it to 16 bit hi color or 256 color but when it reboots it goes to a DOS screen that says" Windows is restarting" after a few minutes, it says " windows protection error press any key", then it says after pressing a key: "It is now safe to shut down your computer". Then I try again and get same results; etc etc etc.

Help! Windows 98se

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by blackcurrant

Hi

Have you tried starting in safe mode and running a full virus scan?

Also, while in safe mode I would click Start>Run and type SFC to run the system file checker to make sure you do not have any corrupt system files. If SFC detects any corrupt files it will prompt you for your installation disk and extract a fresh copy. It will also make sure that each file is the latest version.

And..., have you tried reinstalling the driver for your graphics adaptor and monitor - go into device manager and see if there is a yellow ? or red X beside these. Reinstalling the drivers may solve your problem.

Good luck

by otl

Know you do not want to hear this, but with Win 95/98 and EDO ram the problem was the ram was bad and gave very strange video problems. Resetting the PC reverted it back to scrambled video. You did not mention enough system info to try to determine if this could be the problem.

by willcomp

This is normally caused by a corrupt video driver, so advice to re-install driver is sound and should be first thing tried.

Bad video memory or another problem with video card is possible as well.

Best way to reinstall driver is to change to PCI VGA adapter (Win 98 default) first, reboot, and then reinstall driver for your specific adapter.

Dalton

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