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| Thread ID: 53008 | 2005-01-05 04:19:00 | Win98 and 16 Colours only! | shroeder (6761) | Press F1 |
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| 310780 | 2005-01-05 04:19:00 | Installing W98 on a machine that had W2000 Philips 17B monitor Standard VGA display adaptor We can only get 16 colours? It did much better than that on W2000! Do I need to find a better driver for the adaptor or is it some little trick with W98 that I'm missing? Thanks :thumbs: |
shroeder (6761) | ||
| 310781 | 2005-01-05 04:23:00 | You need to find the right driver. At the moment windows is just using a basic vga driver to get you started. Do you know what your graphics card is? | 4bes (2848) | ||
| 310782 | 2005-01-05 04:23:00 | you will need the driver.... win2K will come with a lot more drivers than win98 get the right drivers and it should run exactly the same resoultion and colours. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 310783 | 2005-01-05 05:39:00 | The local Philips help phone no is 0800 477999 Did the monitor not come with a CD-ROM and Quick Start Guide for using Windows 98? |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 310784 | 2005-01-05 05:59:00 | The local Philips help phone no is 0800 477999 Did the monitor not come with a CD-ROM and Quick Start Guide for using Windows 98? I don't think this is a monitor issue - the video card rather than the monitor is what will be giving only 16 colours. The correct video card driver would probably fix the problem. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 310785 | 2005-01-05 06:16:00 | nothing whatsoever to do with the phillips monitor it is DEFINITELY a video card driver issue.......you need some way of identifying the video card is it an 'onboard' card, (built into the mobo) or is it a pci/agp card.....if pci/agp then just open the case and take a look at the card and note the chipset type and go look online for drivers make sure any you download are for win9 of course.....if onboard you may need a little program like one I have 'unknown deviceidentifier.exe' ah .......just cheked their website and I dont think it's free anymore could email it to you I guess it's 823 kb... if you need it emailed post your addy here but DONT use the @ symbol type it in the following format >>> bob at whatever.com | drcspy (146) | ||
| 310786 | 2005-01-05 06:16:00 | If the machine is the IBM PC 300GL that you posted about earlier, then you will hopefully be able to get the video adapter driver fromthe IBM download pages. Here is the URL as far as PC 300GL: here (www.ibm.com) There is then a box to fill in with the model number, this should be on a sticker at the back of the computer somewhere, a number like 626366A. Your computer is likely to have an Australian suffix. Then you go to Drivers-Video-Windows-Windows 98 and hopefully get the driver for your system. As Mike said, the monitor has nothing to do with the video adapter driver (except for knowing what resolutions and refresh rates are possible) Good luck. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 310787 | 2005-01-05 06:22:00 | In fact it may be this driver here (www.ibm.com) | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 310788 | 2005-01-05 06:59:00 | lol the old s3trio lol | drcspy (146) | ||
| 310789 | 2005-01-05 08:12:00 | The problem would most likely be that the correct video driver has not been installed. If this is so you will be reduced to 640 x 480 pixels only and unable to increase to a greater resolution i.e 800 x 600. If you know what type of graphics card you have, (you may have to open up you computer and read the name on the card itself), you may be able to go to the manufacturer's website and download an updated driver |
David Edgar (6785) | ||
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