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Old 01-05-2006, 02:10 AM
John W
 
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Default Re: DISPLAY SETTINGS STUCK AFTER REINSTALL OF XP HOME

Sorry if I sound stupid, but where do I find the video drivers? All I have
is one CD from Dell entitled "Resource CD". There are drivers on it, but
unless you know what you are looking for it is difficult to locate.
Thank you.



"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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
> news:88779ACC-1B4D-4F7B-8627-BBAC83512A9C@microsoft.com...
> >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.
> >

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