Ah yes, the "reformat" gotcha strikes again. Not a monitor problem. You
require a video driver for your video card for your OS (win98). Perhaps you
have an original driver disk from your "friend". Otherwise get the
specification of the card and search the web. I use driverguide.com. The
card spec. flashes on, top of the screen, as you bootup. Or read the
information on the video card chip.

Jim Stewart
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of DJ DeWitt
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:00 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] Monitor Colors

Hello everyone, I really don't know if this is a software or a hardware
problem . I received a P III "hand me down" from a friend running Win 98.
The computer was running ok and the monitor (a 19" ViewSonic) was in good
working order also.  However, the hard drive was completely full and things
were running very slow. I formatted the hard drive (a first for me) and
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. The slide bar at the bottom of this tab was grayed
out and there was no reaction when trying to reset it. I had the computer
scan for a monitor driver and it revealed that the existing driver was ok. I
tried working the settings on the monitor itself with no change. Then I
hooked up a new 17" Sony Trinitron E240 monitor (one that was on a different
computer and working fine with 256 colors) and repeated all the above steps
and the results were still the same. Only 16 colors. Can anyone help solve
this perplexing problem?

Many thanks............Donald DeWitt




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