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monitor drivers won't install

May 3, 2004 11:35AM PDT

I recently reformatted my hard drive and the plug and play drivers for my azura monitor (14+) will only give me the option of 16 or 2 colours. I've downloaded an azura driver .inf file, but when I try to install a new driver, the wizard will allow me to browse and recognizes the .inf file but won't let me select it and when I ask it to scan the file location for the best drivers (hoping it will select the azura one) it insists the one installed is the best. I'm not sure why it won't let me select this driver. I've never experienced this problem before when updating drivers. How can I over ride this? Or is there a monitor driver that comes with the standard windows 98 recognized drivers that I can select that, although not specific to my model, will work better than the "standard" one it's selecting now?

Windows 98 retail, OEM 4.10.1998 5/11/98

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Re:monitor drivers won't install
May 3, 2004 12:58PM PDT

Just a tip.

A monitor driver details what a monitor can do.

The Video Card driver would enable using more than 16 colors.

Maybe a video card driver would be what you need?

Bob

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Re:monitor drivers won't install
May 3, 2004 10:06PM PDT

You can use the Plug and Play monitor driver for almost any monitor you have, it just limits how high the resolution you will use and what refresh you will use.

You need to install the correct video driver that matches your video card, that is the only thing that changes the number of colors you need. Without the exact correct video driver you only get 2 or 16 colors as a choice.

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Re:Re:monitor drivers won't install
May 4, 2004 1:47AM PDT

Excellent. I'll do that right away. On the reboot it looked like it was reading the video card when it ran through the set up so I assumed it was all ok and never thought to look into that part of the component. (Which, upon reflection, having just reformatted the hard drive obviously it wouldn't have those drivers just sitting around anymore. doh!)

Thanks both of you for your help. I appreciate it!