bradstreetk
July 1st, 2001, 04:08 PM
I have a custom built ATX system with a PC100
motherboard. Has a built in video card. Before my system crashed I was using Juno
lnternet and had great color. Afer formating and rebooting the whole thing I can only get 16 colors. Now with AOL and can't find a driver that will run 256 colors. Even the guy that built it can't figure it out. He says the system has the ability. Can anyone help??
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tyremanb
July 1st, 2001, 04:18 PM
i know this sounds simple, but have u installed the driver for you video card yet, or does it still say "Standard PCI VGA Graphics Card" in device manager? the drivers for it will almost certainly be on the cd you got with your motherboard.
If you have installed the drivers, it should be a simple case of changing the Colour Depth by opening the control panel, double clicking on display, click on the Settings tab. Then, click on the colours box, and use either 16 bit, 24 bit or 32 bit colour.
also, a little more info would be nice, like the type of graphics card.
bradstreetk
July 1st, 2001, 04:37 PM
Mutant grabble
Yes we tried all that yesterday but Wasn't
sure who the maker of the m.b. was. Now I know it is PC Chips. We tried all sorts of things including reinstalling Win98 and trying again.
The only time 256 colors came up was under Super VGA But windows could not find a driver
using the board cd or windows cd
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DANIMAL
July 1st, 2001, 04:54 PM
file:///C:/WINDOWS/Desktop/stuff/aolerror.jpg
UM UM Grunt
tyremanb
July 1st, 2001, 04:59 PM
okey doke. the graphics card should be an SiS 530, and this is the link to the driver on the pcchips webbie.
ftp://www.pcchips.com.tw/driver/vga/win95/sis530.zip
just download that, unzip it to a temporary folder, and follow the instructions.