i have a color problem that i assume is my video card. i am running winME and only have 16 color with 640x480 and had no option for anything else, it was running on the standard display PCI driver so i downloaded and installed the proper driver from the manufactur's (jetwaycomputer.com) site. I got my 256 color and true color back alright...but the display was CRAZY and all i got was bright crazy fluoro colors and everything was all motly you can bearly see anything from the fluoro yellow blue and green, and pics are completly motled and impossible to see at all (note: there not moving or jumping it's just an insane color scheme)...i have changed every setting i can think of and i can't fix it,and my only option was to uninstall and go back to the PCI standard driver and use 16, i'm at my wits end......it's a jetway P4MFM motherboard video card and the video card is a S3 Prosavage DDR (420, 430) i have been searching for an end to this pain for weeks.....please help me...i even did a complete reformat and still have the same problem.as far as i can tell from my constant searching is that i'm the only person on this planet to have ever had this problem... someone please tell me what i am missing.
P.S this was a pc that had win98 on it and the color was fine then BEFORE the ME upgrade it just lost its color options. and i'ts not my monitor as i have tried it on other pc's and it's fine. and it works fine with the 16 colors just looks horrid and everything huge and i can't see pics.

very computer savy, but why do i get the problems that noone else has ever had.

You probably downloaded a bad driver. Your monitor should have came with a drivers disc, try to install the drivers from the disc, if you don't have it, then I suggest calling your monitors maker and tell them the problem and maybe they'll help you. If not, buy a new monitor with the driver disc.

ok i'll give that a try, is this still an option if my monitor says it's a plug and play device?

very computer savy, but why do i get the problems that noone else has ever had.

Yes, plug and play means when you plug it in it already has drivers for it to work, but since you did whatever, some of the drivers for your monitor were deleted. ( I dont know what you did to make it only have 16 colors. )

All you need is the correct video driver. S3 falls under VIA these days:

http://www.viaarena.com/default.asp...

Download & install the "Retro chipset VIA 4in1 drivers" too...I'm fairly sure you didn't do that. As a matter of fact, install them 1st, then the video drivers:

http://www.viaarena.com/default.asp...

ok did all that and everything was going really well with the 4in1 thing (but it didn't give me the 256 or true color) so i ran the driver and wham....there are those colors again.....
i certainly apreciate your help though.

very computer savy, but why do i get the problems that noone else has ever had.

The "4in1" thing is the motherboard chipset driver, not the video driver. The S3 driver is for the onboard video. The old driver should be uninstalled by using Control Panel > Add/Remove, then the new driver should be installed.

Another possibility is that you have the monitor refresh rate set too high. Or you may have a monitor that needs a driver of it's own installed.

hmmm i get ya......i'v ben trying to find a driver for my monitor and i found one on drivers guide but my computer can't deal with that site as it wants 300 pages of marketing options and i can't get to it, i have an IBM 0182 C72 monitor.

also i have discovered that i actually need the 2000/xp version of the S3 Prosavage DDR (420,430) driver. i have it downloaded but the setup won;t run saying i need to have an NT system to run the setup, is there anyway i can get around it?

very computer savy, but why do i get the problems that noone else has ever had.

"i actually need the 2000/xp version of the S3 Prosavage DDR"

Really? Because to use that, you'd have to be running '2000/xp' (not WinME)

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"i'v ben trying to find a driver for my monitor and i found one on drivers guide but my computer can't deal with that site as it wants 300 pages of marketing options and i can't get to it"

You don't HAVE to go thru all the marketing crap! Read the screen...you can skip it.

http://www.monitor-drivers.com/driv...