Hi, quick question? I had to download a fresh new windows pro. I have reinstalled

[wentreefgirl]

Everything. I reinstalled sbc yahoo yesterday. I see that the borders and buttons are the same as before but the content inside the box is plain. Only has the lines around the buttons and type in black. I also notice that this board is all white. Not colored with a backround and also my ez board is the same. White. Is it my computer that is missing a driver or is it the internet that is missing something? Help! cant stand it. Its all confusing in just black and white.

[gazzak]

The problem is your video drivers. It would appear that you are running on 2 colours, black and white only! Re-install the correct video driver, or if already correct, select more than 2 colours from display properties, (right click desktop and select properties, then the settings tab).

[wentreefgirl]

Do you mean go into control panel, appearance themes then pick settings for all and then properties and it gives me properties for the intel pentium graphics controller. It only says one profile for the graphics controller. a sm997df for color management. Its the proper controller for the monitor. Unless your talking about something else. Is there supposed to be more color management options, if so how do I get them. Sorry, not a computer wiz by any means. But the help is appreciated.

[xpuser357]

Right click on desk top away from any Icons choose properties, then
settings tab. What do you see for color settings?

[wentreefgirl]

i see highest 32 bit color quality. And i can bring the pixels up or down on the screen resolution.

[xpuser357]

Do you have on board video or video card? You will probably need to
reload the drivers. You will need to go on google and type in Belarc
advisor, or everest home edition That will help you with a utility
to find out if onboard or video card.

[wentreefgirl]

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Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Gateway E
System Serial Number:
Chassis Serial Number:
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Intel Corporation
Serial Number: Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp.
Drives Memory Modules c,d
80.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
76.20 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LITE-ON LTR-24102B [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

WDC WD800BB-53CAA1 [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMA8E2441496, rev , SMART Status: Healthy 254 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'J6G1' has 256 MB
Slot 'J6G2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 80.02 GB 76.20 GB free

Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
Administrator 11/26/2005 9:13:40 PM (admin)
local system accounts
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SUPPORT_ never


Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account HP PSC 1400 series on USB001

Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Intel(R) 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CB
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller [Display adapter]
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (17.2"vis, s/n HVDX658680, July 2004)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller - 24CD
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C2
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C4
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C7 Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device
Communications Other Devices
BCM V.90 56K Modem


Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
primary Auto IP Address:
Gateway: Dhcp Server: Physical Address:

Networking Dns Server:
HP PSC 1400
Intel(R) Graphics Chipset (KCH) Driver
Intel(R) Graphics Platform (SoftBIOS) Driver
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Logitech USB WheelMouse
HP PSC 1400 series (DOT4USB)
USB Composite Device
USB Printing Support
USB Root Hub (4x)
Virus Protection [Back to Top]
McAfee VirusScan Version 10.0.27
Scan Engine Version 4400
Virus Definitions Version 4637
Realtime File Scanning On



Ok, is it here what your looking for?

[confus-ed]

You seem to want this :- 82845G Integrated Graphics driver (http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&ProductID=865&DwnldID=9033&strOSs=44&OSFullName=Windows*%20XP%20Professional&lang=eng)

Install it - hopefully that'll fix things :).

[wentreefgirl]

Ok, all the same still even with the download. Let me throw a dumb question perhaps. Do you think its the internet explorer?

[confus-ed]

.. Do you think its the internet explorer?

I think 'we' are all sat thinking absolutely everything is in black & white from the moment you switch on - are you now telling us we all went & got confus-ed, & ONLY stuff showing up in Internet explorer is in black & white ?