colour display on monitor

[babygirl080802]

the colour display on my monitor is only at 16 colours which is crap because it should be at 256. Can anyone help please

[NooNoo]

OK we need a few details...

Is the computer branded... eg compaq or hp?
Do you know what video card you have?
What windows version are you running?

Have you right clicked the desktop, select protperties, last tab - settings, and from the drop down box tried to select 256 colours?

If you don't know what you have, go to www.belarc.com and download the free personal audit ... then look at the results for video or display and post it here.

[babygirl080802]

I am noy quite sure exactly what informtion you need so i have just copied what the belarc advisor told me about my computer. I have tried doing what you suggested but 256 colours is not a selection on the list.
I hope this will be of use and that you will be able to help me. Thank you.
Windows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
233 megahertz Intel Pentium w/MMX BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 4.51 PG 05/29/97
Drives Memory Modules
1.28 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
557 Megabytes Hard Drive Free Space

NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:272
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Generic IDE hard disk drive (1.28 GB) -- drive 0 48 Megabytes Installed Memory
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 1.28 GB 557 MB free

Logins Network Drives
babygirl
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[NooNoo]

OK, it doesn't give the information we need to help you.


Follow these directions and post the results.

[DSTech]

Actually, it did give kinda what we needed...... Tells us that the proper video driver is not installed, Windows is using the generic driver. But it doesn't tell us what video hardware is in the system. What NooNoo suggested should find that info out so you know what driver you need.

This computer setup is hauntingly familiar to an NEC Ready computer. I'm guessing the video is onboard and probably by CL (cirrus logic). (just a hunch)
In any case, do what NooNoo suggested and the last little bit of info we need should be found out.

[IBhiM]

I have the same problem. My monitors look like crap. My Compaq Presario w/MV500 monitor (Win98) is running an ATI video card and is stuck at 16 color instead of 256 color. AND, my IBM ThinkPad 600E (Win98) running NeoMagic Media video card is stuck at 16 color too.

[confus-ed]

Flames might be considred rude .... but since its your first post....

Thinkpad 600E

You ought to find all the appropriate thinkpad drivers there, you probably want the chipset patches & video.

If you post the exact 'ATI video card' model we'll help too ... perhaps try Noo's link ?

[NooNoo]

Or post the model of the compaq computer and hopefully we will find out from compaq which ATI you have.

[Harleygirl]

I am having the same problem. I restored my Compaq Presario 7000T to factory settings and now the display won't go beyond 16 colors and very low resolution. I could not find drivers on the Compaq site to fix this. The display driver is set up as Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA). When I did the debug to identify my video card, it says Build number 2176 5/25/2000. I am running Windows 98. Can you help me?

[NooNoo]

here is the driver on the compaq site seems to be an M64 nvidia..

I couldn't find an 7000T desktop... however alot of the same series had the same video. Let us know how it goes.

[crazyman]

3 people reg with the same problem?


*twighlight zone*?

or just a common video driver problem?

[NooNoo]

Very common, usually do 4 or 5 a day in chat.

[crazyman]

Originally posted by NooNoo
Very common, usually do 4 or 5 a day in chat.

*NooNoo*> <*Crazyman*

[Harleygirl]

The link you gave me did not help, however, after much anguish, I pulled out my original invoice and it listed AGP Graphics with 3D Direct. Lo and behold, I found this driver, downloaded it and voila! Thanks for the support - its nice to know I'm not the only one with this problem. Here is where I found my driver in case it helps anyone else:

http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...load/8913.html

Happy New Year!!

[NooNoo]

so not a 7000T presario then...

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Deskpro EC Series C466/810e, C500/810e, P500/810e, P533/810e
Deskpro EC Slim C466, C533, C566, P500, P650, P733
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We can only go on the information given.

I am glad you worked it out thought