leemsbbe, in an earlier reply you stated :-

In Safe Mode, I can change the resaolution and colours.

Are you certain that you were in Safe Mode?
Did it say "Safe Mode" in each corner of the screen?

As far as I am aware, the ONLY WinMe 'Safe Mode' screen resolution that can
be achieved is 640 x 480 at 16 colours and this is by 'design' for
troubleshooting purposes. (But I may be wrong!)

Can you confirm that the screen is 'normal' in Safe Mode - i.e. not split.

I suspect that your 'split screen' is pointing back to a video driver issue.
BTW - can you take a photo of your 'split screen', as I requested earlier?

... I noticed that upon boot (normal) up, it stated that MUP401
(something like that) not loaded whatever that means

MPU401 is associated with (old, pre-WinMe) sound cards and shouldn't
(normally) affect your video card. However, If you are saying that this
error report is happening on YOUR pc, then it also seems like your sound
card drivers aren't correctly installed either.

However, I'm beginning to run out of ideas and as your Recovery CD's are OEM
(Compiled and supplied by Dell) and are not Microsoft's Retail variety, I
suggest you try to get help directly from Dell's Technical Support :-
http://search.dell.com/index.aspx?s=...alse&cat= sup

Mart



"leemsbbe" wrote in message
...
Got the opportunity and connect the monitor into my friend's old Compaq
and
it works beautifully, without any necessary adjustment etc. I noticed that
upon boot (normal) up, it stated that MUP401 (something like that) not
loaded whatever that means. So I guess this old monitor works only its its
kind, old pc........or is there any other factpr that could affect the
split
screen..... thanks

"Mike M" wrote:

leemsbbe wrote:

The 3 images are of the same colour, in fact identical to each other.
Will see if it works on other pc if I get the chance..... thanks

So it's not an electron gun alignment problem. All very peculiar since
you said earlier that using another monitor you weren't seeing the
problem. Nothing really to add to Mart's comments. :-(
--
Mike Maltby