Upgrade Question

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My company just bought a Dell with XP Home on it. I installed XP Pro on it
for our network. Since I changed the operating system, the screen resolution
does not give me the option to change the color quality. With the LCD
monitor disc that I got with the computer, I was able to set the settings to
1024 by 768, but the color quality only gives me an option of 8 bit. I have
tried going to the advanced tab, monitor, properties to try to change it, but
the properties button cannot be selected.
Please Help
Thanks
Rose
 
My company just bought a Dell with XP Home on it. I installed XP Pro
on it for our network. Since I changed the operating system, the
screen resolution does not give me the option to change the color
quality. With the LCD monitor disc that I got with the computer, I
was able to set the settings to 1024 by 768, but the color quality
only gives me an option of 8 bit. I have tried going to the advanced
tab, monitor, properties to try to change it, but the properties
button cannot be selected. Please Help
Thanks
Rose
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You're probably missing the Dell driver for the graphics card so XP is
using a default.

It may be worth looking at Dell's web site to see if you can download
the driver. If a recovery CD came with the Dell it may be on there or
it may be in a hidden recovery partition on the HD.

My Sony Vaio comes with a recovery CD with XP home on it, the drivers
are on that CD, although I have not tried to find them specifically.
The CD also includes applications and other drivers that would be lost
if I did a clean install of XP Pro.
 
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