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Asked on 17/11/2002, 15:16

I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows ME. When I open up display properties, settings, I get only 16 colors and my screen area is only 640 X 480. I went through the help troubleshooter and am still unable to get the right color. Is there something wrong in my BIOS? Or is there another solution?

Reply Posted on 19/11/2002

Nothing wrong with your bios.

If you know the make and mode of your video card, then....

Right click on any clear area of your "desktop"
Left click on the menu option "Properties"
Left click on the "settings" option of the dialog box.

Under the monitor in the newly displayed box will be

the name of your monitor and video card.
If the video card is incorrect, dig out the CD that came with your video card (or possibly your motherboard) and reinstall the video card drivers.

If the video card model is correct, check the colors dropdown box. If there is an option for more colors then bump the colors to 16 bit or high 32 bit.

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If you can bump the number of colors up, but the video refuses to go any higher, then most likely the video drivers are damaged and just reinstall them.
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