Need to increase resolution & color to 256

**PCRookie** · October 23rd, 2006, 09:35 AM

Yes, this is a business machine. I bought it from a man who buys at surplus auctions. The monitor I have selected is "Plug & Play" but when I restart it commonly goes back to default monitor with stanard PCI graphics adapter.

I will check out the URL you mentioned & get back with you.

**PCRookie** · October 23rd, 2006, 09:38 AM

I opened the following file so I presume the software installed from the self-extracting file when I unzipped it.

9x_monitor.exe - Windows 98, Windows 98 SE Plug and Play Monitor and Driver Information
Supports: Windows 98SE, Windows 98
Note: Monitors associated to this information file do not need an updated driver. Microsoft(r) Windows(r) 98 and Windows 98 SE automatically detects the type upon startup. In Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE, the monitor type is set to Plug and Play Monitor for the monitor driver.

**PCRookie** · October 23rd, 2006, 11:44 AM

Everest has been installed & now I don't know what info you want. I find "Plug & Play" for monitor. What else do you need from the report page? Custom report? Do you need to know anything else about system devices?

**geoscomp** · October 23rd, 2006, 11:54 AM

click on the plus sign next to display adapter and then windows video, and see which of the three you found from the link in NooNoo's post is listed..go back to that link, download the driver, and install it.

**PCRookie** · October 23rd, 2006, 10:49 PM

Well .... None of the drivers listed at the download site appear w/Everest. The only things there are the Super VGA that I installed and an item labeled "installed drivers" framebuf.drv

**Mayet** · October 23rd, 2006, 11:26 PM

You could try going to windows updates and see if there is any drivers for you to download for your machine

**PCRookie** · October 24th, 2006, 12:34 AM

An item "Mulitple Monitors" the detail indicates Display 1 is the primary. Could this be part of my problem? Is my system set up for 2 or more displays? If so, how do I go about setting it up? I am just about ready to give up on getting my CPU to tell the monitor to display 256 colors, but I feel sure that it should be able to. Going to sleep on it some more.

**CCT** · October 24th, 2006, 07:30 AM

I think geoscomp wants you to run Everest, click on Display, then GPU and report what the adapter info is.

It may be convenient to get there then click on Report, then Quick report GPU, then plain text and eventually copy and paste that with your reply.

edit: Display, Windows Video and report that also same way.

**NooNoo** · October 24th, 2006, 09:24 AM

PCRookie, you have changed the original driver for the video card, this means it is now difficult to tell what the original hardware was.

VGA and super vga etc are just generic names for minimal drivers which allow you to see the screen.

Please look at the back of the computer, does the monitor appear to be connected to the upper portion of the case or the lower portion....
if it is onboard graphics (the intel graphic driver) the monitor will be plugged in the upper portion of the case and the socket will be near the mouse, keyboard and usb ports. If the monitor is connected further down the case in it's own slot it will be one of the two other drivers.

**PCRookie** · October 24th, 2006, 02:07 PM

Frequently the system "finds an unknown device" and loads the default monitor with this adapter, "Standard PCI graphics adapter (VGA)".
The monitor plugs into the case lower, below the connection for the keyboard & mouse.

**PCRookie** · October 25th, 2006, 12:39 PM

I haven't solved my problems yet. I have found repeated postings about people who have lost the option of 256 colors when installing new software or hardware. So far, I have not been able to recover that ability. Another thing that I have noted is that "system" shows 1 unknown device and 1 unsupported device. I have no idea what that could mean. What should I do about them? disable them in the profile?

Anyone else who has a suggestion more helpful than "You could try going to windows updates and see if there is any drivers for you to download for your machine".

Is there some aspect of Dell Optiplex that would help overcome Win 98's "default/plug and play" from commandeering any plans I have for opting for 256 color. & BTW what is a color profile?

**geoscomp** · October 25th, 2006, 01:03 PM

You will continue to have the color problem until you figure out exactly what video card you have..you are missing the video card drivers and are using generic ones that do not allow high color.

**CCT** · October 25th, 2006, 01:10 PM

Well, at the risk of repeating previous ideas:

Run Everest on the GX110, click on Display, then GPU and report what the adapter info is. Then click on Display, then Windows Video and report that info also.

In each case, once the data is displayed, it may be convenient to then click on Report (in Everest at the top of the screen), then Quick Report xxxx, then plain text and eventually copy and paste that txt report with your reply.

Then, hopefully, we will know what video component you have.

**PCRookie** · October 25th, 2006, 01:27 PM

CCT
I did that but I am not hooked up to the internet on that computer. I am using a Mac G4 to copy/paste is not an option. I also don't have a printer on that computer. So here is the info as best I can get it transcribed.
Integrated Intel 82810E GMCH Graphics Controller
Code i752
Device 8086 / 7125
Bus Device Integrated
Ramdac Clock 230
PP pipeline 1
TMU Per Pipelines 1
Vertex Shaders unsupported
Pixel Shaders unsupported
DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v6.0

Graphics Processor
Intel Corp

Do you need the Debug info also?