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Because my old PC kept crashing w/Stop Errors, and the recovery process has never corrected it, I bought a new HD and an XP OEM disk. I installed the new HD as a slave drive, but installed the XP OS on that disk first as an experiement, and as a back-up boot drive. Although it does boot up if I set it to the boot drive, I found that the version of XP from the OEM disk has only 4 colors and only 1 choice of screen resolution of 640x480. Basically, it looks awful, like from the late 80's.
Is this normal for an OEM disk? Is there anyway to add additional .dll files or whatever to give it the increased color quality and higher resolution settings? Or... am I screwed?
If anyone knows, plz post what U know. Thanks, much obliged.
You need to install the drivers for your video card. If you have a brand name computer go to their website and download the drivers, otherwise you'll need to find the model of your video card and then go the that manufacturers website to get drivers.
You need to install the drivers for your video card. If you have a brand name computer go to their website and download the drivers, otherwise you'll need to find the model of your video card and then go the that manufacturers website to get drivers.
It is actually in 16 color mode, but it is crude none the less.
Agreed, and if you system still boots from the original XP installation, boot that then go to device manager and it will display the exact make/model of your video card and other hardware.
When you installed XP - it installed just basic VGA drivers that work for all video cards. It probably didn't recognize your specific video card and didn't have a driver for it.
It is very possible that when you run Windows Update - which you most certainly will do many times in the next few hours to install the latest patches and updates - it will install a better video driver that will give you the color and resolution you want. The BEST video driver is probably available at the video chip manufacturer's website.
IT WORKED!!!! Thanks for the advice posted. That was the problem. The drivers were on the recovery partition. It's working just fine now. Issue resolved.
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