New computer hooked up. What the F^%$???? Help!!!
 

Got my new computer hooked up. Same monitor, new hard drive. Now I only have 16 bit color and cannot get off the standard 640 x 480 screen settings. What gives?? It's the same monitor I had before., but everything is really big and the color sucks. Any suggestions????

Yep, Try right clicking on the desktop area and look under properties. Should find a spot to change colors and resolution.

Good luck.

Tried that already. No effect. The screen display feature doesn't even offer me any other alternatives. Nothing I have tried has worked. I'm not computer illiterate, but I can't figure out why with the old computer everything was fine, but with the new one I get this!!!

Go to setting and then to control panel. After that monitor settings.

You may also have a monitor icon on the lower right of the monitor which will also work.

We don't seem to understand......I have tried all that already. I know how to change the settings on my monitor. BUT IT DOESN'T EVEN GIVE ME THE OPTION UNDER THE CONTROL PANAL/MONITOR/SETTINGS!!!! I'm at my wits end. About ready to go back to the old, slow, crashes twice a night computer with the really noisy cooling fan. I can hardly read this message I'm typing due to the color settings. AOL runs at 256 colors, I'm using 16. Not pretty.

Running windows 95 by the way

Chances are that your new computer doesn't recognize your monitor and is using default universal settings. Right click on desktop and click properties then click on settings. Click on the advanced button and click the monitor tab. If your monitor is not identified specifically here then click change monitor and follow the directions. Let us know how it works out.

Larry

Under setting set the colors and then move the slider for res. and then hit apply. The computer may have to restart to apply.

Mike, if you still can't get it email me your phone # and I will try to help over the phone.

Larry

Laster, you've got mail.

Mike, Ken could not retrieve the video card driver from your old hard drive. You are running on a generic driver. He tried downloading a driver from the card maker's website but they went out of business. We probably ought to get you a new video card. They're cheap.

Might try swaping video cards with the one that was on the moitor before. You need the correct drivers for each make of card to take advantage of it.

So, now I'm back on the other computer. Nice to have a back up I guess.....

So, who's gonna stop over and fix this for me? When it comes to taking them apart and changing cards, I'm still a virgin. Never been INSIDE a computer before.

MIKE it's easy just make sure you touch the case before touching anything inside the box. (static elect. -- very bad)

Mike,

I have a video card you can have. I should be in the area next week.
Scott

Who made your video card? Ususally the chips are pretty generic like Nvidia or a hand full of others. There are a lot of places to get drivers for Video cards, you just need to know what you have. I have seen at least one site that had drivers for video cards that went back 4 or 5 years.

If you have a windows setp disc, full version, it will have some versions, not always the last one put out by the mfgr, but usually good enough.. Also if you post the video card, I am sure someone has the same on if it was popular at all and could e-mail you the driver or burn it to CD.

Buying a new one is also an idea, if it's a 4 or 8 meg card I'd get a new one anyway.

Drivers board
 

go to www.driverguide.com ...they have just about all video drivers from the last 7 years

logon: drivers
password: all

Video Card Drivers
 

As many have said, you need to load the drivers for your video card. This is a fairly simple process if you have the drivers!

Follow the advise of others and try to find the proper drivers for your video card. Otherwise, it's off to the store to buy a new one.

Good Luck! :D

euby,

that's the page I was trying to remember!

Vonbongo

I talked to a computer expert today about my problem. He suggested I just get a new video card and download the drivers for it. But, they were out of the cheap one (is $65 cheap???) and the next one up was quite a bit more.

Oh, and he gets $39 to instal it. For that, I CAN change it myself!!!

I think you've got a pci, not avg, video card. You might be able to get one at the place on 28th St. that refurbs them. They've got the drivers for the used ones they sell.

Yup, PCI card.