Help! HP Omnibook 4100 video problem

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Hi Jay,

For a crisp display you need to run the machine at its native resolution. It sounds like you are running at a lower resolution.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
~ He esteems too lightly

Jay wrote:
| hi!
| A huge thanks in advance to anyone who can help me solve my problem.
| The other day, I purchsed a used HP Omnibook 4100 laptop. It is a
| pentium II 233. It was formatted, but I re-formatted anyways.
| Installed Windows 98. Then I had the Recovery CDRom, which also has
| the drivers for the laptop. I installed the correct drivers for the
| video card (on board neomagic), and it succesfully allowed me to
| change the display size, go up to high color/true bit, etc., which
| before installing the driver, I only had 2 or 16 colour as options,
| and only the largest font as the option. So the drivers did
| successfully install. However, as with before the driver was
| installed, the font of texts, icons, etc. are muddy and shadowed. Some
| letters and numbers look almost bold or thick, while some are
| railthin. Its very difficult to read, and even more annoying in word
| processor programs.
|
| Whats really weird too is I took a screenshot for an example, saved it
| to disk, and when i load the image on my main PC (not the laptop), the
| screenshot looks normal!
|
| Would anyone be able to help me? Whats going on and what do I need to
| do to fix the problem? Thanks very much...
| email me at triumphfancanada@NOSPAMrogers.com
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