[princess275]

Hi all

I have come across this forum while searching google for the answer to the exact same problem (its great to see how much effort ppl put in to help out)

I have exactly the same problem as talkingrock BUT WITH ONE DIFFERENCE'; my graphic card seems to be onboard rather then a separate graphics card. My PC was also custom built by a local store.

the device manager shows my card as "standard PCI graphics adapter (VGA)".

I'm hoping you guys can get me sorted too

thanks a million in advance


sonia

[DJNafey]

Thanks Talkingrock

Princess275, I'm going to move your post to your own thread so that we can help you on your individual issue separately

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[DJNafey]

This thread is split from http://www.d-a-l.com/help/showthread.php?t=32789

Princess275's problem is that her display settings have reverted to 640x480 resolution and 16 colours.

Princess275: Could you please run the D-A-L Online Hardware Scan (there's a link in my signature) and copy the log file here so that we can try to identify the correct drivers that you need for your PC? Also, do you have the original driver CD or floppy disks that came with the PC?

[talkingrock]

I don't know what onboard means other than it is built into the machine, connected to the motherboard, which mine is.

[talkingrock]

Princess,
I have downloaded Everest from a link here at DAL, and it tells me all I need to figure out whose hardware and software I have in here, versions, etc. Very helpful that Everest. I went from there to figuring out which drivers I needed. Also critical was a jumpdrive to ferry the drive over. It connects via the USB port. Rock

[princess275]

HI DJ

Clicking on the online hardware scan in ur sig took me here http://www.d-a-l.com/index.php?page=hardwarescan

i may be going blind, but can u tell me where the link for scanning is?

also, i dont have any orginal disks

thanks in advance

sonia

[princess275]

Hi

In the meantime i Ran the everest check and it showed some of the following information (I have included parts of the report in the attachment too):


Display:
Video Adapter Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)
3D Accelerator SiS 300 Integrated
Monitor AOC Spectrum 7Vlr(A)/7Vlr(A)+ [17" CRT] (1143141600)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter SiS 7018 Audio Accelerator



--------[ Windows Video ]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) ]

Video Adapter Properties:
Device Description Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)
Installed Drivers vga.drv


--------[ PCI / AGP Video ]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SiS 300 Integrated Video Adapter
SiS 300 Integrated





Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 62-0914-001437-00101111-071595-SiS730S$M810LR_RELEASE 09/14/2001 S

Motherboard Name PCChips M810LR (2 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 AMR, 2 SDR DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)

[ImageMaker]

--------[ Windows Video ]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) ]

Video Adapter Properties:
Device Description Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)
Installed Drivers vga.drv

Here's the problem -- you aren't running a driver specific to your hardware, so Windows thinks you have a "standard" (ca. 1988) VGA card installed and will only show you 640x480x16 colors. You need to find the drivers specific to your video hardware (which ought to be on the CDs that came with the computer, somewhere, since it's an on-board adapter) and install them; you'll most likely then be automatically switched to using them and have other resolution and color depth choices available (or if not automatic, once the drivers are installed you can switch to them via the "Advanced" button on Display Properties).

[DJNafey]

If you don't have the driver CD (it may say "PC Chips" on it as the graphics chip is built onto the motherboard so the driver would be on the motherboard driver CD), try this link to download the latest version of the SiS 300 driver from the SiS web site:

http://driver3.sis.com/graphic/gpu/3..._115_win9x.zip

Hope that helps

[princess275]

Hi DJ

Unfortunately i dont have the CD.

I downloaded the zip file u linked to but it contains so many files, which one shall i run?

thanks again

sonia