Elizabeth Boston <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>John,
>        The original video card is a PCI Diamond
>Stealth64, 2001 series with a date of 1995 on it.
>        I don't know about adding video ram, probably not
>something I would try on someone else's computer
>for the first time.
>        No video on the motherboard.

Hi,
   Have you tried downloading new drivers and reinstalling them.  With
getting only 16 colors it sounds like either their is a driver conflict in
Windows 9x that is only letting him run VGA Mode or he is running Windows
3.x with the 16 color driver (Windows 3.x requires a seperate driver for
each color/resolution combination.)
   You might also want to try starting in safe mode, delete everything in
the Device Manager under video, then shut down the machine, put the video
card in a different slot, and then rebooting.  I have had this fix problems
that nothing else would (moving a PCI card to a different slot makes Win 9x
think it is a totally different card).

HTH,
Donald Gaither

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