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Name: shahe
Date: September 29, 2006 at 22:56:39 Pacific
Subject: weird display
OS: windows 2000
CPU/Ram: --

Comment:

i dont know exactly what happened, but i woke up one morning and my computer was all messed up!..it working fine, just as it always is but the display is tottallu weird. Its 16 colour and the screen area is 640 by 480. It cant be changed!. drop down menu for colour only has one option and the screen area thing only has 640x480 and 600x800..but when you try to chnage it its exactly the same!
does anyone know what going on?

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Response Number 1

Name: Ray Peate
Date: September 30, 2006 at 05:16:53 Pacific
Subject: weird display

Reply: (edit)

Yes - you video card has unloaded its driver: aren't computers wonderful!!!
You will need to reload the driver for it! Do you know what it is??

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Response Number 2

Name: shahe
Date: September 30, 2006 at 23:14:20 Pacific
Subject: weird display

Reply: (edit)

erm..not really

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Response Number 3

Name: Ray Peate
Date: October 1, 2006 at 13:53:54 Pacific
Subject: weird display

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You have 2 choices - either
1. Open the case and have a look (!!!) OR
2. Download Aida32 from here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1...
and run it and it will tell you what adaptor you have.
Go to their web site and download the appropriate driver and install it.

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Response Number 4

Name: Derek
Date: October 8, 2006 at 18:20:36 Pacific
Subject: weird display

Reply: (edit)

I'm more familiar with W98SE but a common fix when this happens is to delete the Video entry in Device Manager then reboot. Windows usually then reloads the driver and fixes the problem.
Apologies if Device Manager is called something else in W2k.
DerekW

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