Stuck in 16 colours

[Guest_imported]

In Win 98 my screen is stuck in 16 colours???

I have the option to set it to trues colour in the display settings in control panel but when I reboot for the new setting to effect it has no effect and the screen is still in 16 colours?? any ideas???

 

[Zelandakh]

Either your monitor will only cope with that many colours or your display adapter is set wrong.

Check in device manager that both of those are correct for your hardware.

 

[edfair]

How are you closing from the change? Exiting retains previous setup. Ed Fair
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[Guest_imported]

Thanks but

According to Device manager EVERYTHING is working fine???

Any other ideas?

My computer was working fine during the afternoon then I tuned it off and when I came to use it again about 2 hours later it booted in 16 colors and I am unable to change it even though control panel lets me select true color etc.

 

[edfair]

Time for a driver reload. Ed Fair
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[Guest_imported]

In Control panel I selected get driver option for the video card and put in the windows 98 CD.

It said I already had the latest driver available and exited.

 

[edfair]

Without knowing what you have and how it loaded and not knowing the ramifications of the changes this is the way I'd proceed.
Change display to vga, save it , and shutdown the system.
reboot and let it find the new device and have it load the drivers. should have the choice to load new drivers which I would do. Ed Fair
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