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Anonymous   11-28-2001 at 07:41:43 AM

I think I made a real mess of things today. My Quantex 400mhz PII graphics card went south. Everything I saw onscreen was a lovely shade of fuscia. I am not afraid to add hardware to a system, so I did the logical thing. I removed the nVidia card from device driver, removed the software from Add/Remove Software, installed the new card-a Savage4 AGP 3d-then installed the drivers from the cd. I rebooted the system and ....a screen looking like it is in Safe Mode! I went to control panel and the card is there but I have no listing for a monitor. The display properties identify the HP M70 monitor as running at "Monochrome 0x0" and it is not able to run more than 16 colors at 640x480 resolution. Is my system going to recover? Overgrown icons are not what I am used to seeing, let alone the strangeness of not being able to determine what I have done wrong.

Any help or suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
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pike   12-01-2001 at 04:24:01 AM
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Not sure if this will help :

Don't know wy you're monitor would not show up under devices

Only thing i can think of is try everything you did originally, with the exception of selecting standard vga mode for your graphics "setting", then reboot, and then shut down remove your Savage 4, and reinstall everything.

Keep us posted to what happened !

Danny

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ycs46241   12-05-2001 at 12:35:46 AM
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do you monitor drivers'? what os are you using? if you go to settings you can pick monitor and see if your verision on os has the driver.
i went to hp support and found this to down load please try it should help
<A HREF="http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/swindex.pl?p=hppavilion18300&l=en&c=DriverVideo" target="_new">http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/swindex.pl?p=hppavilion18300&l=en&c=DriverVideo</A>

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Anonymous   12-06-2001 at 07:48:52 AM
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Thanks to both of you for the replies. I am going to try both suggestions, as well as one at the HP Site. It says to select a monitor in the "Add new hardware...", so it is worth a try as well. One will try any/everything once. Thanks again. Will keep you posted. By the way, the computer experiencing the problems is not my main computer, so it makes it easy to work on but a pain to disconnect/reconnect to the monitor.

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