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640x480 res with 16 colors????

640x480 res with 16 colors????

Need some serious help here...

Okay, first off my mom got a refurbished computer from her friend this week and she wanted me to fix it up for her. I agreed, of course, and when I took my first look at it my thoughts were "OH MY GOD!". It is an HLC Pentium machine with a P 133MHz processor, 64MB of EDO RAM (I upgraded it to 128MB thankfully), 10 GB Hard Drive (I added a second 20GB for 30GB total storage, good enough for her anyway), a CD-ROM 4x drive and Floppy. As I said earlier, I added more system memory, and a second hard disk but my main problem now is with her display. She is running Windows 98 Second Edition for your records, and I added a new Dell M991 Monitor (17" CRT) in place of her old (I could even say rusty) 13 or 15" monitor that came with the PC. I also had this problem with her old monitor for your information. Okay, now to the symptoms: First off, I noticed that her resolution was set at 640x480. So, naturally, I tried to set it at 1024x768 (which appeared to be the maximum resolution supported by her graphics chip). It was at 16 colors, so I changed that to High Color. WhenI clicked "Apply", I got a dialogue box that said "Windows must be restarted for the settings to take effect. Click Yes to restart now or No to restart later.". I clicked Yes to restart, it restarted and it was still set at 640x480 res and 16 colors. This is when I started getting worried. I updated both the Display Adapter and Monitor drivers but Windows Update claimed that the most current drivers were installed and could not continue. What should I do? Thanks for the help guys. Peace.
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Reply #51 Top
i guess this is just another learning experience...
Reply #52 Top
Don't beat yourself up (that's our job)......you'd be amazed how many people don't plug the thing in......  
Reply #53 Top
"Hardware Acceleration"....when you get so pissed off with a buggy machine you LAUNCH it through the nearest Window rather than LOAD Windows on it....
Reply #54 Top
.....no windows left intact at your place........  
Reply #55 Top
LOL. thats why we should all use mac's (not really)

my mac-loving friend said this once "throw an APPLE thru a WINDOW, then look at the BLUE sky...its stupid...
Reply #56 Top

"throw an APPLE thru a WINDOW, then look at the BLUE sky...its stupid...

Not wrong....

Reply #57 Top
AAAAAAHHHH!!!!! ITS A BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!! I got one of these on my Vista PC yesterday...shhh...dont tell...
Reply #58 Top
dont feel like the lone stranger...I have DOH! moments all the time.