It's not so much an issue of a driver for the monitor, but for the video
card. If it's proprietary, then only Compaq drivers will work.
In some cases you may be able to get a simular driver for the video from the
maker of the video chip. The video chip says what colors you can have and
the monitor will tell you what resolutions you have. But not all monitors
will handle all resolutions, hence the INF file for the monitors. These tell
Windows what the monitor can handle without going out of sync. (although you
could tweak the monitor and INF to get more resolution-but difficult)

Winston
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Roeth" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 9:31 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Screen resolution question


> I recently reformatted a Compaq Presario 5363 and installed W98.  Wanting
> more pixels I went to settings to find only two choices; 2 color or 16
color,
> and only one choice for screen resolution.  Since it its the same hardware
> installed I'm assuming this is a driver issue for the monitor.  Can
someone
> verify that for me, or offer some suggestions how to get my choices back?
> the monitor is a Samsung ?? and is about a year and a half old.  All help
is
> appreciated.  Thanks group.
> Paul Roeth

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