Hi,

It's not the monitor drivers you need to update but rather the video card
drivers need to be installed. Right now you are in standard VGA mode, which
is what you get on a clean installation until you install the card drivers.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"John W" <JohnW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I was getting blue screen errors and decided to create new partitions and
> reinstall XP from the OEM disk. Since I did, I cannot modify the display
> settings. It is stuck at 640X480, 16-bit. When I click on the advanced
> tab, and
> monitor, it says 'default monitor' but "properties" is grayed out. I
> cannot
> check or update the driver(which is what all the help screens ask you to
> do).
> I have an 18" LCD monitor and before the reinstall we had much higher
> resolution.
> Any ideas why this would happen? I am about to pull my hair out and my
> system is out of warranty by a few months.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thank you.
>