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Solve : Colors and pictures wrong on net....Please HELP!!? |
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Answer» When I go on the internet (netscape or ie) none of the pictures show up that good as far as colors go and I have faint little blue squares all over the background of everything. Solid colors are okay like on yahoo.com the red YAHOO in the center is okay but everything else is messed up. Someone told me that maybe it was my monitor pixels, so I tried to change that but mine are stuck at 640x480 and won't let me change it. I don't know whats going on but it is driving me crazy. I got this computer for free and I am trying to get it running smoothly for my sister in school. The computer it self is 6 years old and was previously networked together in an office. When it was there the internet worked fine. It has a Win98 operating system. Any help would be greatly appreciated.I would like some more information about your system. Can you please tell me the following?:
I would like some more information about your system. Can you please tell me the following?: Monitor is DellE551C Netscape version 6.2 IE version 6.0 No sites work normally and to be honest I can't find what the video card is or if I even have one, I assume it would be in the device manager some where but I can't find it. THANKS Quote Check in your Device Manager to see if your video drivers have gone awol. I checked in my Device manager and to be honest I can't find where it says what my video card I even have. Example of what I see is... under the category Sound, Video & game controllers I have the options of MPU-401 Compatible or Vortex AU8810 PCI Audio or Vortex AU8810 Sound Blaster Pro Emulation or Wave Device for voice modem. Then under system devices I have a selection for Intel 82810 DC100 System & Graphics Controller. I'm not sure if any of these are it or not. Quote I would like some more information about your system. Can you please tell me the following?: Quote Check in your Device Manager to see if your video drivers have gone awol. I checked in my Device manager and to be honest I can't find where it says what my video card I even have. Example of what I see is... under the category Sound, Video & game controllers I have the options of MPU-401 Compatible or Vortex AU8810 PCI Audio or Vortex AU8810 Sound Blaster Pro Emulation or Wave Device for voice modem. Then under system devices I have a selection for Intel 82810 DC100 System & Graphics Controller. I'm not sure if any of these are it or not.You can check what video card you have with the DXDIAG tool. Go to Start, and Run... . At the prompt, type dxdiag and hit enter. It'll take a little while to load, but all the info about your system will be there. I have a different operating system, so it'll look different on yours, I imagine. Navigate to the "Display" information. You will get all information about your display there. When you're in that screen, can you please press Alt-Print Screen, then go to paint and press Control-V? Save the screenshot as a JPG and attach it to your next post. As I said, yours will look different, but here's mine. I for some reason cannot attach mine, but you should have no problems. Mine looks like this: This is the image that was PMed to me: I'm unsure of what to make of this. I'm leaning towards an insufficent video card. What do you guys think?Download Belarc Advisor, install it and run it to generate a detailed report of your installed software and hardware. Let us know what it says about the video part of your computer. Broncos, have you opened that computer? Do you know how to recognize AGP slots and PCI slots?Running an internet acceleration program can also cause this COMPLAINT. Quote Download Belarc Advisor, install it and run it to generate a detailed report of your installed software and hardware. Let us know what it says about the video part of your computer. This is what came up when I ran Belarc Advisor....I don't see where it says anything about a video part. Let me know what you guys think. THanks Denver Click here for Belarc's System Management products, for large and small companies. Operating System System Model Windows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222) Computer Business Solutions, Ltd. Star466 Processor a Main Circuit Board b 467 megahertz Intel Celeron 32 kilobyte primary memory cache 128 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Giga-Byte Technology Co., LTD i810-47B27X Bus Clock: 66 megahertz BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 05/22/00 Drives Memory Modules c,d 4.30 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 2.84 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space Verbatim 522452AL [CD-ROM drive] Generic floppy disk drive (3.5") Generic IDE hard disk drive (4.30 GB) -- drive 0, No SMART Driver 64 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'A0' has 64 MB Slot 'A1' is Empty Local Drive Volumes c: (FAT32 on drive 0) 4.30 GB 2.84 GB free Network Drives None detected Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers Stat107 HP DeskJet 720C Series v10.3 on LPT1: Controllers Display Standard Floppy Disk Controller Intel 82801AA Bus Master IDE Controller Primary IDE controller (dual fifo) Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo) Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) [Display adapter] DELL E551c [Monitor] (13.8"vis, s/n 641801B1108K, October 2001) Bus Adapters Multimedia Intel 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller Gameport Joystick (no joystick connected) MPU-401 Compatible Vortex AU8810 PCI Audio Vortex AU8810 Sound Blaster Pro Emulation Wave Device for Voice Modem Communications Other Devices Creative Modem Blaster PCI DI5633 10/100 Mbps PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter Infrared PnP Serial Port (*PNP0510) Creative Modem Blaster PCI DI5633 Infrared Communication Device Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard Vortex AU8810 Multifunction PCI Platform USB Root Hub Virus Protection [Back to Top] Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition Version 9.0.0.338 Scan Engine Version 51.1.0.15 Virus Definitions Version 6/15/05 Rev 8 Last Disk Scan on Monday, January 09, 2006 7:13:47 PM Realtime File Scanning On The problem is that you don't have the correct graphics driver installed for your computer. You are using the generic Windows driver which is currently giving you a maximum resolution of 640x480 (yuck) and a maximum of 16 colours (double yuck). No way will the web look right! Do you have the specifications of this computer written down anywhere? Quote The only thing in the Belarc report was the same as the report from running dxdiag, which is "Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) [Display adapter]" And, you probably see the same thing in Device Manager under Display Adapter. I believe, but am not absolutely sure, that Belarc can identify certain hardware components regardless of whether the proper drivers for the device are installed. Therefore, this makes me think you have a generic video card; in other words, it's not a major brand and that's why Belarc does not recognize it. I asked in an earlier post whether you know how to recognize AGP and PCI slots in a computer? Apparently, you have a video card in a PCI slot, since the reports say "Standard PCI Graphics Adapter". OPENING the computer and simply looking inside would immediately confirm this for ANYONE who knows how to recognize PCI slots. This reference may be helpful: How to Upgrade and Install a Video Card Are you interested and willing to purchase a video card to replace whatever you have there? The cost could be a low as $45 or less, and still get a card with 64MB video memory. You could probably get a 32MB card on ebay for not more than $20. I recently got such a card for an upgrade to my mother's computer. |
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