help! display problem

a friend of mine uninstalled some sort of color / display manager from her computer ( she is not certain of the name of it , might have had the words max and color in it ) anyway getting to the problem, when it left her desktop has gone out of control, the icons are HUGE her browser is enourmous, the colors are mostly gone and she cant seem to get new settings to stay, why wold have getting rid of this done that? she has no desktop architect or anything simalar , should she download one?

 

Where did she GET this color manager?

If it came with the computer and she just uninstalled it to see what would happen, she should shuffle through the CDs that came with the computer. Does she have anything that came with the monitor or the video card?

Has she rebooted since she did this thing?

She may have to reinstall the display drivers.

 

Try restoring the computer to a point before doing uninstallation

IF you have windows me and up you will be able to do this

 

she doesnt know where the color manager came from, she was letting a kid use her computer but hes not owning up to anything

she has rebooted it and stil no change
how do you reinstall display drivers?
would it help to get a desktop architec?

 

it is windows 98

 

also when it left it seemed to take all but 2 of her color options in the display settings!

 

Endiablado (or somebody else, if you're reading this), can you walk jett through the Device Manager and rolling back or updating the driver for this non-functioning display?

I'm just too tired to keep typing tonight.

 

I suspect the drivers for the video card have been deleted.

Maybe you should try updating or reinstalling the drivers from the windows 98 disk. it might work.


also look for the disk that came with the computer for the video card

as a last resort

you might have to open the computer and see if there is a name of the video card somewhere on the card. if you find it you might be able to download the driver from the internet.

 

I will try. but I dont think windows 98 has the roll back option available.

I will go and turn on my windows 98 computer and find out

Edit:yep no rollback option in windows 98

 

i shoulda mentioned color shows up on certian things ie. windows start up screen and the icons but is almost nonexistant on the wallpaper.
the browser being extra large also to do with the drivers?

 

Endiablado is going to help.

If you don't get it fixed tonight, turn it off overnight. It's not good for you to run at bad driver settings.

 

ok,

thank you

 

I was going to take step by step on how to update the drivers but this site will explain it to you in more detail and with pictures.


http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/tips/drivers/updatedrvdevice.htm

 

Have you tried changing the screen resolution in control panel?
Click Start, Settings, Control Panel
Double click Display icon
Select Settings tab
Move the slider to the right.
Click Apply
Also, on the same Settings tab, are color selections. Try selecting 16 bit High Color (may ask you to restart computer)
Good luck!

 

tried that, slider wont move

 

thanks ill go try this, let you know later or tomorrow how it works!

thanks for the help

 

I'm not trying to butt in here, I would just like to propose a plan of attack:

1. Beat the snot out of that kid and don't ever let him/her use the PC again.

2. Determine the video card type using Aida32.

3. Down load the appropriate drivers, either ATI or Nvidia.

4. Install the drivers either thru Control Panel > Display > whatever-it-is-in-98 -or- Control Panel > System > Device Manager

Simple, no?


[Edit]try zimpal's suggestion 1st

 

lol, oh we thought about that!!!

thanks for the info!

 

very good advise,

download aida and that should tell you what kind of video card you got then

 

thanks again everyone for all the help

 

its fixed !!!! thanks to all of you!!! yaay

 

Let us know How

that way more people can learn if this happens to somebody else

 

Scroll down the board to his Nvidia thread. He posted the results to a different thread.

I already let him know that he needed to keep his responses confined to the same thread

 

Gotcha

Thanks

Just in case we need to access that thread in the future I am posting it here


http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27137