If it were me I would be looking at the monitor drivers. It will cause such issues. Check the manufacturer website for current drivers for you make and model monitor. Do not accept drivers from the Microsoft Update site. One of their recommended driver caused me the exact problem you have. The Mfg. driver took care of the issue.
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Glenn
Let me just start by saying that I know next to nothing about computers.
Now that that's out of the way -- I have a Compaq that's been really messed up lately, I've had it for about three years and left it at school over winter break, came back and the display was only showing the 16-color option, I tried to change it and it wouldn't work, formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows, didn't work, reinstalled the drivers, didn't work. So now I have no idea what to do. Is it the monitor perhaps? Or the display card? If it's the display card then how do I know what to look for when I buy a new one? Any ideas?

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