Aarrrrrgh!!!

Aarrrrrgh!!!

by Tathraman Oct 28, 2005 11:11AM PDT

I've got myself into a hell of a mess trying to tweak display on my Win 98SE machine. Its display properties are 16 colours, 640 x 480 pixels and the graphics are a standard PCI graphics adapter. It was an Intel (R) 810e, but the computer told me that the standard PCI was better, so I changed and now the screen is horrible. Please help me get out of this mess!
TIA David

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Did you just plug it in and nothing else?

by Steven Haninger Oct 28, 2005 11:16AM PDT

It needs proper drivers installed to work or it will default to some failsafe mode which is consistant with what you describe. If you go to your hardware listing, I will bet you see the video card highlighted (usually w/yellow question mark) indicating that it's not set up or working properly. You need to install the drivers so Windows knows it's capabilities. It's also good to have a monitor driver if you can find one but you can usually get acceptable performance without an exact match.

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aarrgh!

by Tathraman Oct 28, 2005 11:29AM PDT

On checking device manager/display adapters I have Standard PCI Graphics adapter [VGA] - no yellow ! so I assume it's working ok.........

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Not correct

by Steven Haninger Oct 28, 2005 11:38AM PDT

It should display the device by name. Standard VGA adapter is exactly the reason you see what you do. It's the failsafe. Find the adapter's CD ROM and run the setup utility. If you don't have one, go to the manufacturer's web site and get the current driver for that make/model and run the installation file. Some of these install automatically but some just uncompress into a folder which allows you to install the drivers manually.

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OK..

by Tathraman Oct 28, 2005 12:17PM PDT

I think it's solved - I downloaded the Intel graphic driver and it seems to work fine.
Thanks for your help
David

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