Either it does not "like" the monitor selection made,
or the video driver is "wrong".
Windows may (or may not) have picked these for you.
That does "not~" make them the right ones... <grin>...

Figure out what video card is in there, (or on-MB chipset?)
and get the proper drivers for the OS you want to run.

                                Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: "DJ DeWitt" <[log in to unmask]>
> installed a clean copy of 98. When it booted up for the first time the
> monitor only had 16 colors instead of 256. I went into the
control panel / display / and the / settings / tab and found that this
was a default setting with no other options.

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