My PC was modified recently with a change of motherboards. It was an old P90 and was modded to a celeron. All was well while win 95 was in. I recently cleaned win95 and installed winME. Now I can only get 16 colors on the monitor and many programs won't install. Monitor is a Vivitron EVGA, although I can't find EVGA drivers anywhere. It's running with an SVGA driver at present
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need more colors than 16!
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The Video card its self needs updated drivers installed. The 16 colors would not be caused by your monitor. Its your video card needs drivers. James Collins
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May be time to consider a new video adapter. If ME can't find it I suspect that it is in so little use that they didn't bother to build in the search routines.
You might try deleting it and see if it will update on the next boot. Ed Fair
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You might try deleting it and see if it will update on the next boot. Ed Fair
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The manual I got with the upgrade sys the graphics processor is built into the mainboard, it's not a separate card. It says it is " a built in high performance 64 bit 3D AGP graphics accelerator with 8MB frame buffer and an onboard 3D Sound Pro to meet PC98 specifications for 3D multi media system". It doesn't give any manufacturer name or anything. Is there a generic driver I can use to increase from 16 colors to more? I need to crack this as several new programs won't load because they need full color palettes.
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More likely that you will find the drivers on the M/B website or on a cd or floppies that came with the M/B. That is the preferred route of the board integrators.
I think you were shorted some stuff on the upgrade.
Do you get a splash screen on bootup? That might also give you some clue of what you have. Ed Fair
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I think you were shorted some stuff on the upgrade.
Do you get a splash screen on bootup? That might also give you some clue of what you have. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.
Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
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