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Thanks for the reply.
I didn't think to try removing all the old drivers in safe mode!
I'll try it next time that i visit them and post any results back here.
Martin.
"Mart" <mart(NoSpam)@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Martin, it sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being
> properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. You need to
> start again.
>
> Boot into *Safe Mode* and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display
> Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect
> (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the
> 'correct' drivers.
>
> Be sure you have the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter)
> which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web
> site if necessary.
>
> HTH and good luck
>
> Mart
>
>
> "Martin" <zedolf@o2.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> Hello all.
>>
>> My nephews have a Compaq Deskpro 4000.
>> Upgraded with various bits - it's got a Pentium 233MMX, 112MBs RAM and a
>> Voodoo 3 2000 video card.
>> (USB2 PCI card, bog-standard PCI sound card and bluetooth dongle too
>> BTW!).
>>
>> I recently had the pc to fix - discovering a total of fourteen trojans,
>> of which three or four had already infected the system!
>>
>> I successfully backed up all data to my Windows XP Pro pc and deleted the
>> various sources of the trojans - all dodgy archives of NGage games they'd
>> downloaded from P2P sharing. I used The Cleaner and KasperskyAV to clean
>> up everything.
>> Deleted all partitions on both the Compaq's hard drives.
>> And successfully got Windows ME freshly installed and updated with all
>> the latest updates.
>>
>> All working 100% - scanned and clean too!
>>
>> So i returned the pc to them yesterday.
>> We booted it up and it detected my nephews' monitor and installed it -
>> i'd re-installed the system using an old spare monitor i have lying
>> around.
>> All working ok except we were stuck in 640 x 480 resolution.
>> We could choose 640 x 480 in either 256 colours, 16 bit clour or (i
>> forget it's highest setting but think it was 24 bit colour).
>> However we couldn't get any resolution other than 640 x 480.
>>
>> Previously, with the same monitor and also with the old monitor used to
>> re-install the system, we had
>>
>> 640 x 480
>> 800 x 600
>> 1024 x 768
>>
>> And all three of these resolutions were available in three different
>> colour depths.
>>
>> Nothing has changed - after the reinstall of Windows ME i installed the
>> last updated version of the Voodoo drivers.
>> These were the same drivers that i'd previously installed on the Compaq
>> when it was working in all three resolutions.
>> DirectX is updated to the latest version and that's the same as was on
>> the old installation of Windows ME.
>> No driver or software changes have occurred.
>>
>> So i've been through endless iterations of driver and monitor installs
>> and uninstalls but haven't been able to restore the pc to it's three
>> different video resolutions.
>> Also been though the Windows\Inf folder and deleted a couple of Voodoo
>> .INF files before one of the driver installs but it didn't help.
>> Changed drivers through Device Manager and the Display properties
>> Advanced setting too.
>>
>> I've left the pc, up and working, with them but really want to get the
>> three avaliable resolutions to be available - 640 x 480 is workable but
>> hardly adequate.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Martin.
>>
>>
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