Can't Get Above 16 Colors

[Jim Smith]

I reloaded Windows 98 after reformating the hard drive of a PIII machine. Device Manager shows the display adapter as Standard VGA and the driver, as I recall, vga.sys. Settings in Display Properties shows only 16 colors being used and allows only two color options: 2 or 16. Attempted driver update from Windows 98 CD, message returned is that the best driver is already loaded. Not sure but guess the adapter is AGP.

Seems to me that the machine is using a BIOS driver.

Can I get to 16 bit color with this adapter?

[enat66]

You need to download the specific driver for your video card. The standard VGA driver is basically for getting to installing the real drivers. Tell us what the video card is and we can find the right driver for you;)

[Spider]

Download and run Aida32 (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/downloads/download.php/id/30)

Under Display (click twice on it) and PCI / AGP Video (click once on it)
your video is named on the right hand side.

Post here (word for word exactly) what Aida32 says the video is.

[Jim Smith]

Download and run Aida32 (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/downloads/download.php/id/30)

Under Display (click twice on it) and PCI / AGP Video (click once on it)
your video is named on the right hand side.

Post here (word for word exactly) what Aida32 says the video is.

Thanks people. Aida32 showed it to be a S3 Trio3D2X AGP adapter. I downloaded and updated the driver.

[Spider]

I downloaded and updated the driver.
Can we assume it fixed your problem?

[Jim Smith]

Yes, fixed the problem. Sorry for the delay, sinister health problems abounded, but I guess we are OK now.