can anyone help me with my computer problem before i got to work this afternoon?

i'm using windows 98.

last night i went into command prompt and did scanreg/restore and went back to an earlier time cause i was having problems w/illegal operations crap. well i did that a lot of times cause the colors on my screen are totally messed up. so now i can go back and restore to when the colors were not messed up since it only shows the last 5.

well my colors are all messed up on the internet and on the pictures. you can barely see them and stuff. i have tried to update drivers for display and stuff but nothing works.

when i go into system properties and dispay adaptors there are 2 things listed:

intel graphics controller
and
standard pci graphics adaptor vga

and when i go to my monitors there it won't let me use but 16 colors.

i've tried to remove standard pci thing but when i restart it pops up again.

i'm just so lost and don't know how to get my colors back.

anyone know what to do?

It sounds like you need to enter the bios and disable your motherboard's graphics, so you will only have the pci graphic card working.

how do i do that? i'm not sure what i'm doing.

During the start sequence you tap the delete key so you can enter the bios. If you are successful a blue screen will appear. There will be a list of items like normal cmos, advanced cmos, features, plug and play, power, optimal, etc. You want to select the features and then scroll down to your onboard graphics and select disable. Put your cursor on it and it will be highlighted, press the enter key, and then use the plus/minus keys to select disable, use the enter key and then the Esc to exit. Select save my settings(yes) and then restart the computer. The system should on see your video card and you should be good to go. You could also remove the video card, but I am assuming there was a good reason that you spent money for it and installed it.