Wjen you formatted the HD, youerased everything,
including all drivers. This means that Win98 doesn't
have the drivers for your video card. You need to get
the drivers from whatever company that your video
card's chipset is from (ATI, or nVidia). They will
have the latest drivers for you to download and
install. This should fix the problem completely. If
not, let me know what else is going on.

-Jacob MacWay-
--- DJ DeWitt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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