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Color and Video Display problem

by rstenerson Jun 1, 2005 10:26PM PDT

I defragged myhard drive last night and ME came up after rebooting 16 colors and 640 x 480. I am unable to
restore to 16 bit colors and 764 x 1068. Upon closing
ME error message ccurs. Mixghost caused error in
OLE32.DLL and KERNEL32.DLL. Can any body help me.
pentium II 333 MHz DELL.

TNX

Ralph stenerson
n3nx@arrl.net

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by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jun 1, 2005 10:39PM PDT

First, don't do anything but shutdown, pull the AC cord, count to 20 and put the AC back in and reboot. It could be a temporary issue.

Next, goto Dell.com, download your video drivers and reinstall those.

Bob

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It Fixed Itself

by rstenerson Jun 2, 2005 12:15PM PDT

Thanks Bob,

I'm back to normal now. This is what I did. I disabled "mixghost" with task manager, changed my display settings (color and screen area) and rebooted.
I also had to adjust the screen area on the monitor. This worked. I'm back to normal. It's really weird but I panic when the computer acts up.

Regards,

Ralph

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