Only 16 colours

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Greg

I reloaded windows 2000. No VGA adapter available. Only 16
colours. Was OK before.
Rebooted repeatedly. Doesn't pick up any drivers, either
windows or net.
All adapter information unavailable
How do I go about to get 256 colours back
 
Open case and ID adapter. Download appropriate driver from manufacturers
website and install.
 
I reloaded windows 2000. No VGA adapter available. Only 16
colours. Was OK before.
Rebooted repeatedly. Doesn't pick up any drivers, either
windows or net.
All adapter information unavailable
How do I go about to get 256 colours back
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Your stuck with 16-colors and low resolution Until you ID and
install drivers for both your adapter and your display.

Seems like you can manually select SVGA which gives you 256-colors.
 
Bob I said:
Open case and ID adapter. Download appropriate driver from manufacturers
website and install.
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Or, if you don't want to open the case, try this:

Open a command prompt window: Start->Run, type CMD <Enter>
Type debug <enter>
You will receive a different prompt, -
Type d c000:0000 <Enter>
Read the information from the right column, it will generally tell you what
the video chipset or card is.
If you don't see the right information, type d <Enter>
Repeat until you see the desired information.
When you have your information, type q <Enter>
Then type exit <Enter>

How this works:

Each time you boot your computer, the information contained in your video
BIOS is loaded into memory. Debug is displaying the contents of the memory
range beginning with C000:0000 and continuing on each time you type "d"
again. You can read any memory range like this, but the range beginning
with that address is where the video BIOS is commonly loaded.

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-----Original Message-----
I reloaded windows 2000. No VGA adapter available. Only 16
colours. Was OK before.
Rebooted repeatedly. Doesn't pick up any drivers, either
windows or net.
All adapter information unavailable
How do I go about to get 256 colours back
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