What name does your monitor show up in device manager? If it changed from "plug & play monitor" or something like mode number(eg LG 775N) to "Default monitor", many video card won't allow you use high color/high resolution setting. If this is your case, change it to "plug & play monitor", try again.

Jun Qian

John & Leasa wrote:

> recently, the color on my computer changed internally.  it went from a high level of color to the lowest.  my monitor was found to be okay and also my video card.  i am unable to change the color through the regular means of the settings.  my system is unable to run several programs as i keep getting the command "this program will not run without a higher color setting".  from everything i have been able to gleen over the last several weeks my problem is internal.....something in the system will not allow me to change the color.

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