expertec Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Any ideas why a computer would keep setting back to 16 colors when the user trys to set it to 256? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Drivers.Make sure all vid drivers are up to date (and installed for that matter). Also check monitor drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted July 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 It's an old 486 machine, Winows 95, and as far as I know the drivers are as up to date as they'll ever be (onboard graphics) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Exactly what I hope you wouldn't say...I don't know what to tell you, besides get a cheap vid card? You can probably find one for about $5, because you won't need anything special.try flashing your BIOS. I had a problem with a laptop not seeing the CD-ROM in windows (did in dos with a win98 bootdisk), I flashed the bios, and it worked great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted July 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Not mine, a friend's.Won't even take a cheap video card, unless you know where I can get an ISA one...$? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Try flashing the bios, if that doesn't work, I don't know what else to do. All I can say is live with it.. sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 The drivers may have become corrupt for some reason.... try reinstalling them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted July 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 No CD and no CD-ROM drive :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Download drivers and put them on a floppyIf thier too large, there are programs to 'split' files accross multiple floppies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted July 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 It's so old I don't think I can find drivers for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Got the self-same problem. Just reformatted an onboard video 386 with an IBM monitor which was running 265 colours fine. Now only 16 available. 'Update Drivers' takes me to the correct IBM G70 drivers but I get 'best driver already installed'. I can only guess that I've wiped the mobo drivers but I ain't got a clue what happened to the install disc, if there ever was one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Contact the manufacturer. It's old, but they made it, so they should know something...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Mate, how lucky can you get ? I found an old keyboard box with the driver CD's and floppies in it. I remember putting them in there in 1998 because I didn't know what they were. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 .......which ignites my low-wattage ideas area. Any way that WF could begin a repository of older files ? Not just links to sources but the files themselves for download ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 That would take up a lot of space... You better ask craig nicely :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Not me mate. I don't do nice. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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