Windows won't show correct resolution

Asa · Thu 30 Dec, 2004 12.01

I've formatted a relative's PC and put Win98 SE on. Trouble is, Windows isn't allowing anything higher than 16 colours and 640x480. Before I formatted, the screen was 800x600 and 16 million so any ideas on what the problem could be?

All it seems to like is "Standard PCI VGA adapter" :roll:

Asa

Bail · Thu 30 Dec, 2004 12.17

Give this a try.

Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > Adapter > List All Modes... > Pick one you know the monitor can cope with and it should list it in the options you can select.

cwathen · Thu 30 Dec, 2004 13.53

It's a very simple problem - Windows 98SE doesn't come with drivers for most modern graphics cards, so it's installed a standard VGA driver (which will report itself as 'Standard PCI Graphics Adapter' even if you have an AGP card, so don't worry about that). This works with any graphics card, but only supports 640x480 with 16 colours.

Al you need to do is install the correct drivers for his card. If you don't have the original CD, you can download them freely from the internet.

Neil Jones · Thu 30 Dec, 2004 17.42

Asa wrote:I've formatted a relative's PC and put Win98 SE on. Trouble is, Windows isn't allowing anything higher than 16 colours and 640x480. Before I formatted, the screen was 800x600 and 16 million so any ideas on what the problem could be?

All it seems to like is "Standard PCI VGA adapter" :roll:

Just means it doesn't have any drivers for the graphics so it's loaded a standard VGA driver so you have something to look at. Find out what the graphics card is and put the drivers on.