I can't get more then 16 bits for color and my resolution is stuck at 640 x 480 can someone please help me..

You mean 16 colors? You need to install the video drivers. Did you just reinstall windows or add a new video card?

I did nothing...I was cleaning stuff up andI must of accidently deleted something because when I rebooted the computer I coul get it out of 16 colors...how do I get a video drive?

You'd get it from the whoever made the card or from the manufacturer of the video controller chip on the card. Or if it's a brand name like IBM, Dell, etc. and the card came with the computer then their web site should have the drivers. Drivers tell the operating system how to use the computer's hardware.

First go to device manager (right click on My Computer, choose properties, then device manager). Open DISPLAY ADAPTERS. What does it say there?

OK, it'll probably say something like Standare PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA). Since it worked OK before maybe the drivers are still there.

Double click on the adapter that shows. You should get a box with three tabs. Click on 'Driver'. Then click 'update driver' or 'reinstall driver', whichever shows. Keep hitting 'next'. When you get to where it asks where to search, click the 'specify a location' option and type in C:\WINDOWS\INF and click 'next' again. That's the folder where windows stores the driver info.

If it doesn't find the driver you'll need to reinstall it. If you don't know what you've got and haven't got the driver disk, you can download something like Everest:

http://www.oldversion.com/program.p...

(I use the 1.10 version as I think newer ones don't work with 98.) Run it and hopefully it'll tell you the adapter. Post back that information and we can locate the drivers.

Device manager may show some yellow ? or ! That indicates the drivers aren't configured right (or aren't there) for whatever hardware they're associated with. That may or may not be related to your video driver loss. If that's the case post back what it shows.

I'll check back tomorrow.

It's a standard PCI graphics adapter (VGA)..it's telling me tahjt is the driver it is already using and it has the best one in but I am still not getting anything.

It says the device is working properly bit it actualy isn't... also I odn't know were to look for the yellow.

Re-read the responses and do not keep asking the same question if you want us to help you have to help yourself, we have not got Crystal Balls. Standard PCI graphics adapter (VGA)is what Windows Uses when it can not find the correct driver Response4.

http://www.gtopala.com/

The above SiW software will inform you who manufactures the graphics card chipset!

I did his dircetions step by step and it still did not work...

What computer model/make is it?

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Download, install, and run Everest Home Edition (as DAVEINCAPS instructed above) on this machine. Once it's finished loading and running, look under Computer, Summary, Display, or under Display, PCI/AGP Video. This will tell you what display adapter/chip you have. Post that information. (Video Adapter ~and~ 3D Accelerator.)

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As Walter indicated, the default adapter was installed because windows didn't have the one you needed. When you did the search, windows had nothing new to search in so it responded that the best driver was already in use. I had hoped it would find the information in the windows\inf folder but I guess not.

Everest should ID the adapter. Walter's link may too, although I've never used SIW. Just post back the info as Dan says and we should be able to get it set up.

My video adaptor is Standard PCI Grapchis Adapter (VGA) (64 KB) and my 3D accelerator is 3DFX Voodoo Banshee.

It looks like there's a download here:

http://www.falconfly.de/banshee.htm

You'd probably want the most recent one. Be sure to download from the win 9x section.

Download and upzip to a specific folder so you can find them. You can create a folder something like Voodoo for that. Run winzip or whatever you use to extract zip file. Choose to extract to the folder you created--probably C:\VOODOO. It extracts to an .exe file.

Run that .exe file and a box comes up suggesting you extract the file to c:\windows\temp. I'd suggest you change c:\windows\temp to c:\voodoo so that everything stays in the voodoo folder.

Now you've got everything you need in the c:\voodoo folder. Do the 'update driver' thing I suggested in #4. But this time when it asks where to search type in c:\voodoo. If you've done everything right it should find what it needs there.

It keep saying the best availible driver is installed when I do those steps but it won't install voodoo.

The problem with 98 is it'll only look for the drivers in the places you specify. (I think it does automatically look through the windows\inf folder though.)

I downloaded the driver prior to my posting above and extracted it just to make sure I gave you the right info. You might want to browse the folder you created with the drivers--probably c:\voodoo--to make sure they are there. There should be a BANSHEE.INF file. That's what it's looking for.

It's possible you need to go through the 'change adapter' routine. For that, open DISPLAY in control panel. Then SETTINGS, ADVANCED, ADAPTER. Click CHANGE and NEXT. Check 'DISPLAY A LIST OF ALL DRIVERS. . . ' and then NEXT. Click HAVE DISK. It then asks where to look. Then you'd type in the location of the drivers--probably c:\voodoo--and click OK.

But first, make sure the files are there by browsing through the folder they're supposed to be in. In the folder I created there were 20 files--the original download, the extraction of that download and then the actual 18 driver files.

If everything there checks out but it still can't find the drivers then maybe that download is bad and we'll need to find another one.