About computer resolution. And Problem with Word.
 

Hi,

I have a problem with my laptop computers. The one is a
Dell latitude and the other is a Toshiba lapotp.

The problem with the dell and the toshiba is their
resolution does not want to work properly. The screen
area does not change. It is 640x480 pixels and i want to
make it to be 1024x769 pixels.But any time i restart my
computer, it will give me a worning that the driver in
not configure properly and will return back to 640x480
pixels.

The other problem is in microsoft Word. When ever I open
and type a word,the whole sentence will be in black
colour and the cosour will be blinking in white.

Thanks.

Do both laptops have their display drivers installed? Are
they updated? Try reinstalling them.

-----Original Message-----
Hi,

I have a problem with my laptop computers. The one is a
Dell latitude and the other is a Toshiba lapotp.

The problem with the dell and the toshiba is their
resolution does not want to work properly. The screen
area does not change. It is 640x480 pixels and i want to
make it to be 1024x769 pixels.But any time i restart my
computer, it will give me a worning that the driver in
not configure properly and will return back to 640x480
pixels.

The other problem is in microsoft Word. When ever I open
and type a word,the whole sentence will be in black
colour and the cosour will be blinking in white.

Thanks.
.
Hi the

I am no computer genious but just started taking computer
programming and did read about computer and resolution and
its relation to the RAM in the video card.
If your video card does not have enough memory for the
amount of resolution and pixels you want, then it will
auto= matically adjust itself down.
Times your color resolution together 1024 times 769= 787456
pixels on your screen. Multiply that number by how many
bits of color you are using. ie. if you are using 256
colors you multply that by 8 bits. 64, 000 colors is 16
bits, 16,000,000 colors takes 32 bits. So whatever color
you are using, multiply the bits by the pixels.

If you are using 16 bits, multiply 787456 by 16 = 12599296.
We divide that by 8 bits and round it off to get how many
megabites of ram your video card needs to run on that
particular setting. 12599296 divided by 8 = 1574912 (round
off to 1.6 and you get 1.6 megabytes. Your video card
should work on those settings if it is a 2 megabyte video
card. If you want higher resolution and more pixels on
your screen you will need a video card with more RAM in
order to get what you want on your screen.
I calculated the settings I would like for my screen with
the highest possible resolution and pixels and disovered I
need a 8mg RAM video card and only have a 2mg RAM card at
this time.
Hope this helps

Maleesa

It's 1024x768 not 769.
And 16bit color is 65536 (to be specific :)
1024x768 @ 65k 16bit color needs 1.5mb video memory.

Goto :
Control Panel Display Settings Advanced and check
how much memory your display adapter has. Some laptops
share memory with the rest of the system; there might be
an option to give it more ram in the BIOS.

I was planning to use an old noname card for multimonitor
to discover that it only has 0.5mb memory :(