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I tried to change my display setting every day for past week, at least ...
and the do not change, just stops responding so I have to close down with Ctrl+Alt+Del and it's really starting to annoy me. I've reinstalled Win98SE but that didn't work. I don't know whether to reinstall my system disc because I'm not sure it will work. I have a MA810 board with SIS intergrated graphics. I can chose what settings I want but as soon as I click OK or Apply ... it stops responding. I used to have tweak in but I'm not over fond of it but the display settings played up at least a week before I took it out. Can anyone help or have any ideas? I don't usually need help but this has foxed me. I don't want to format my master hard drive, Thanks in Advance |
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When the correct screen resolution (screen area) or the right number of
colors are not available choices in display properties, settings tab, then it is a good bet you do not have the right driver installed for your display adapter. The display adapter in your PC is either a video card or a display chipset on the motherboard. If you received a CD or floppy disks with drivers along with your PC, see if they contain a display adapter driver and install it using: control panel, system, device manager, display adapter. If you know what display adapter your PC has but you have no disks, use www.google.com to track down the correct driver on the internet. If you do not know what display adapter your PC uses, you can go to a MS-DOS prompt and type: Debug and hit enter. The screen will display a flashing prompt next to a - sign. Type: DC000:35 (DC000:50 may also work) and hit enter. The name and possibly model of your display adapter should appear on the right hand side of the screen. To quit Debug, type Q and hit enter. If Debug is not helpful, you can try this program: Advanced PCI Info, available at: http://www.upsystems.com.ua/support/alexmina/ If all else fails, you will have to remove the computer case. Look at where the monitor plugs into the back of the case and then check that location inside the case. If there is a card there, you obviously have a video card and if not, you have on board graphics. Write down any information displayed on either the card or the chipset on the motherboard. Then use www.google.com to search for the information. Do not include all the data you found in one search message--search on each piece individually. If you include all the information at once, you might not get a hit. I have found that a video card will generally have to be removed in order to see the information. Be careful of static electricity as it can fry components. Before touching anything in the computer case (the cord is unplugged, right?), ground yourself to the case by touching it. Don't work on carpeting since shuffling your feet on it can generate static electricity after you grounded yourself. Remove the one screw that holds the card in place and using a rocking motion (left to right and back) and pull the card straight out. Once you have the right driver, install it through control panel, system, device manager or through control panel, add new hardware, as appropriate. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Anne" wrote in message ... I tried to change my display setting every day for past week, at least ... and the do not change, just stops responding so I have to close down with Ctrl+Alt+Del and it's really starting to annoy me. I've reinstalled Win98SE but that didn't work. I don't know whether to reinstall my system disc because I'm not sure it will work. I have a MA810 board with SIS intergrated graphics. I can chose what settings I want but as soon as I click OK or Apply ... it stops responding. I used to have tweak in but I'm not over fond of it but the display settings played up at least a week before I took it out. Can anyone help or have any ideas? I don't usually need help but this has foxed me. I don't want to format my master hard drive, Thanks in Advance |
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you didn't read the question properly ... I know all about those settings ...
they are fine ... what I want to change is the appearance ... size of Icons, fonts etc; nothing else ... I've already done all that cos it's as I want it .... it's the appearance I want to change and you can only change those through display settings ... "Ron Badour" wrote: When the correct screen resolution (screen area) or the right number of colors are not available choices in display properties, settings tab, then it is a good bet you do not have the right driver installed for your display adapter. The display adapter in your PC is either a video card or a display chipset on the motherboard. If you received a CD or floppy disks with drivers along with your PC, see if they contain a display adapter driver and install it using: control panel, system, device manager, display adapter. If you know what display adapter your PC has but you have no disks, use www.google.com to track down the correct driver on the internet. If you do not know what display adapter your PC uses, you can go to a MS-DOS prompt and type: Debug and hit enter. The screen will display a flashing prompt next to a - sign. Type: DC000:35 (DC000:50 may also work) and hit enter. The name and possibly model of your display adapter should appear on the right hand side of the screen. To quit Debug, type Q and hit enter. If Debug is not helpful, you can try this program: Advanced PCI Info, available at: http://www.upsystems.com.ua/support/alexmina/ If all else fails, you will have to remove the computer case. Look at where the monitor plugs into the back of the case and then check that location inside the case. If there is a card there, you obviously have a video card and if not, you have on board graphics. Write down any information displayed on either the card or the chipset on the motherboard. Then use www.google.com to search for the information. Do not include all the data you found in one search message--search on each piece individually. If you include all the information at once, you might not get a hit. I have found that a video card will generally have to be removed in order to see the information. Be careful of static electricity as it can fry components. Before touching anything in the computer case (the cord is unplugged, right?), ground yourself to the case by touching it. Don't work on carpeting since shuffling your feet on it can generate static electricity after you grounded yourself. Remove the one screw that holds the card in place and using a rocking motion (left to right and back) and pull the card straight out. Once you have the right driver, install it through control panel, system, device manager or through control panel, add new hardware, as appropriate. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Anne" wrote in message ... I tried to change my display setting every day for past week, at least ... and the do not change, just stops responding so I have to close down with Ctrl+Alt+Del and it's really starting to annoy me. I've reinstalled Win98SE but that didn't work. I don't know whether to reinstall my system disc because I'm not sure it will work. I have a MA810 board with SIS intergrated graphics. I can chose what settings I want but as soon as I click OK or Apply ... it stops responding. I used to have tweak in but I'm not over fond of it but the display settings played up at least a week before I took it out. Can anyone help or have any ideas? I don't usually need help but this has foxed me. I don't want to format my master hard drive, Thanks in Advance |
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I beg to differ--perhaps you need to write clearer as you did not mention
fonts or size of icons. What you did say is: Quote: "I tried to change my display setting every day for past week, at least ...and the do not change,...." -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Anne" wrote in message ... you didn't read the question properly ... I know all about those settings .... they are fine ... what I want to change is the appearance ... size of Icons, fonts etc; nothing else ... I've already done all that cos it's as I want it ... it's the appearance I want to change and you can only change those through display settings ... "Ron Badour" wrote: When the correct screen resolution (screen area) or the right number of colors are not available choices in display properties, settings tab, then it is a good bet you do not have the right driver installed for your display adapter. The display adapter in your PC is either a video card or a display chipset on the motherboard. If you received a CD or floppy disks with drivers along with your PC, see if they contain a display adapter driver and install it using: control panel, system, device manager, display adapter. If you know what display adapter your PC has but you have no disks, use www.google.com to track down the correct driver on the internet. If you do not know what display adapter your PC uses, you can go to a MS-DOS prompt and type: Debug and hit enter. The screen will display a flashing prompt next to a - sign. Type: DC000:35 (DC000:50 may also work) and hit enter. The name and possibly model of your display adapter should appear on the right hand side of the screen. To quit Debug, type Q and hit enter. If Debug is not helpful, you can try this program: Advanced PCI Info, available at: http://www.upsystems.com.ua/support/alexmina/ If all else fails, you will have to remove the computer case. Look at where the monitor plugs into the back of the case and then check that location inside the case. If there is a card there, you obviously have a video card and if not, you have on board graphics. Write down any information displayed on either the card or the chipset on the motherboard. Then use www.google.com to search for the information. Do not include all the data you found in one search message--search on each piece individually. If you include all the information at once, you might not get a hit. I have found that a video card will generally have to be removed in order to see the information. Be careful of static electricity as it can fry components. Before touching anything in the computer case (the cord is unplugged, right?), ground yourself to the case by touching it. Don't work on carpeting since shuffling your feet on it can generate static electricity after you grounded yourself. Remove the one screw that holds the card in place and using a rocking motion (left to right and back) and pull the card straight out. Once you have the right driver, install it through control panel, system, device manager or through control panel, add new hardware, as appropriate. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Anne" wrote in message ... I tried to change my display setting every day for past week, at least .... and the do not change, just stops responding so I have to close down with Ctrl+Alt+Del and it's really starting to annoy me. I've reinstalled Win98SE but that didn't work. I don't know whether to reinstall my system disc because I'm not sure it will work. I have a MA810 board with SIS intergrated graphics. I can chose what settings I want but as soon as I click OK or Apply .... it stops responding. I used to have tweak in but I'm not over fond of it but the display settings played up at least a week before I took it out. Can anyone help or have any ideas? I don't usually need help but this has foxed me. I don't want to format my master hard drive, Thanks in Advance |
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Sorry about that ... I just wrote as I was thinking ... you may have noticed
the odd missing letter, so I thought that I had mentioned what I was having problems with, sorry if I didn't. Well, can you help or have I got to do a back-up and re-format the main drive, which I don't particularly want to do ... too much to lose., so I need to know what I need to do. This is the very first time that I have ever had a problem like this and I've been using computers for 25+ years in every form and shape they have taken. Saw my first one when I was about 4 and I got a feeling they would shrink in size as this one I saw was as big as a house ... sorry I rambled ... :-) "Ron Badour" wrote: I beg to differ--perhaps you need to write clearer as you did not mention fonts or size of icons. What you did say is: Quote: "I tried to change my display setting every day for past week, at least ...and the do not change,...." -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Anne" wrote in message ... you didn't read the question properly ... I know all about those settings .... they are fine ... what I want to change is the appearance ... size of Icons, fonts etc; nothing else ... I've already done all that cos it's as I want it ... it's the appearance I want to change and you can only change those through display settings ... "Ron Badour" wrote: When the correct screen resolution (screen area) or the right number of colors are not available choices in display properties, settings tab, then it is a good bet you do not have the right driver installed for your display adapter. The display adapter in your PC is either a video card or a display chipset on the motherboard. If you received a CD or floppy disks with drivers along with your PC, see if they contain a display adapter driver and install it using: control panel, system, device manager, display adapter. If you know what display adapter your PC has but you have no disks, use www.google.com to track down the correct driver on the internet. If you do not know what display adapter your PC uses, you can go to a MS-DOS prompt and type: Debug and hit enter. The screen will display a flashing prompt next to a - sign. Type: DC000:35 (DC000:50 may also work) and hit enter. The name and possibly model of your display adapter should appear on the right hand side of the screen. To quit Debug, type Q and hit enter. If Debug is not helpful, you can try this program: Advanced PCI Info, available at: http://www.upsystems.com.ua/support/alexmina/ If all else fails, you will have to remove the computer case. Look at where the monitor plugs into the back of the case and then check that location inside the case. If there is a card there, you obviously have a video card and if not, you have on board graphics. Write down any information displayed on either the card or the chipset on the motherboard. Then use www.google.com to search for the information. Do not include all the data you found in one search message--search on each piece individually. If you include all the information at once, you might not get a hit. I have found that a video card will generally have to be removed in order to see the information. Be careful of static electricity as it can fry components. Before touching anything in the computer case (the cord is unplugged, right?), ground yourself to the case by touching it. Don't work on carpeting since shuffling your feet on it can generate static electricity after you grounded yourself. Remove the one screw that holds the card in place and using a rocking motion (left to right and back) and pull the card straight out. Once you have the right driver, install it through control panel, system, device manager or through control panel, add new hardware, as appropriate. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Anne" wrote in message ... I tried to change my display setting every day for past week, at least .... and the do not change, just stops responding so I have to close down with Ctrl+Alt+Del and it's really starting to annoy me. I've reinstalled Win98SE but that didn't work. I don't know whether to reinstall my system disc because I'm not sure it will work. I have a MA810 board with SIS intergrated graphics. I can chose what settings I want but as soon as I click OK or Apply .... it stops responding. I used to have tweak in but I'm not over fond of it but the display settings played up at least a week before I took it out. Can anyone help or have any ideas? I don't usually need help but this has foxed me. I don't want to format my master hard drive, Thanks in Advance |
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I would start by removing the display adapter driver, rebooting and
reinstalling it. If no luck, go on a spyware hunt: Spyware/scumware/adware are causing numerous system problems. I recommend you download and use the following programs and consider removing everything these programs identify. Be aware that there are frequent updates to these programs and you need to check for them before every use. AdAwa http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html (download link near the bottom) Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/ If still no luck, see if something running in the background is causing the problem: How to Perform Clean-Boot Troubleshooting for Windows 98 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=192926 -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Anne" wrote in message ... Sorry about that ... I just wrote as I was thinking ... you may have noticed the odd missing letter, so I thought that I had mentioned what I was having problems with, sorry if I didn't. Well, can you help or have I got to do a back-up and re-format the main drive, which I don't particularly want to do ... too much to lose., so I need to know what I need to do. This is the very first time that I have ever had a problem like this and I've been using computers for 25+ years in every form and shape they have taken. Saw my first one when I was about 4 and I got a feeling they would shrink in size as this one I saw was as big as a house .... sorry I rambled ... :-) |
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