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I had the WinMe CD in the bay.
When I took it out, it rebooted fine. Unfortunately the display remains 'shrunk'. I think that it is stuck in a default state where it doesn't think it has anything but a basic VGA display. Regards -----Original Message----- OK, I guess (hope!!) that you still have floppy disk access? Try booting, using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot. At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space between the g and /) then press Enter. Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date, continuing with the instructions. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Let's hope that bings you back to a "working version" of WinMe Mart " wrote in message ... Well, I did something in Safe Mode that must have really crushed the system. When I reboot it never launches the Windows Me screen any more and hangs at the end of the BIOS load. All I tried to do was the get rid of the extra drivers lying around nmgc5.drv and nmgc6.drv. So the next step is to get rid of Windows Me and go back to Win98. WHAT A PAIN. -----Original Message----- I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode ..... Probably because you "Rebooted in Safe Mode". Your drivers are not loaded until your PC boots into Normal Mode. Good luck with rest of the exercise and be very careful around the bandsaw. Mart wrote in message .. . Well, I'll give that a try. I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode because some 'unknown' driver / program was loaded as directed by the config.sys (which is empty) or the autoexec.bat file. The next stop will be the bandsaw. -----Original Message----- Mmmm.. just a Wild A..ed Guess, but being a laptop, is there an option in the BIOS to change from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 screen display? I have (had - but a long story g) a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (circa. similar to yours) which needs to be adjusted this way to permit 800 x 600 display. However, you do 'seem' to suggest that you can actually achieve an 800 x 600 resolution but can't maintain it after a re-boot? In which case, I just wonder if you may need to try the process a couple of times in an effort to flush the registry of 'corrupted' (pnp) enumerations and perhaps look to see if you have any other old driver remnants on your hard drive - check the ..windows\inf sub-folders Mart " wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, but alas, the problem persists. I found the original NeoMagic MagicGraph XD driver at the Dell site (listed as for Win98) and brought it down. I uninstalled everything I could find in Device Manager while in Safe Mode. Rebooted, Windows identified the missing drivers and I led it to the Dell driver. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Changed the screen to 800 x 600. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Rebooted in Safe Mode. Interestingly, the 'Peformance Tab' tells me that I am running paging in MSDOS compatibility mode because some kind of driver was loaded by config.sys (which has NOTHING in it) and / or by autoexec.bat which only has a couple of window dir commands. So we are still stuck with a slow performing, tiny screen windows machine. This is worse than being a freshman wizard at Hogwarts, try ing spells and getting unrelated results. -----Original Message----- How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? By booting into Safe Mode and then opening Device Manager and use the 'Remove' option to delete - or more accurately 'remove' - any/all Display Adapters. (You will probably find 'several' there - whereas you'd only find one in Normal Mode - hence the need to do it in Safe Mode) When you re-boot, WinMe will detect that drivers are required and you must point it to the original NeoMagic (or whatever was supplied by Dell) drivers, BEFORE WinMe tries to install its own default drivers. Confirm that you do have the correct WinMe compatible drivers for your specific laptop model by checking their availability on Dell's website. Mart " wrote in message ... We have a similar problem with our Dell Latitude laptop. AFter installing the final MS Windows ME software update, our display went to 640x480-16 and refuses to change back to any larger size. We've tried everything including going back to the VGA adapter, then upgrading to the NeoMagic 128XD driver from 1999 and then the Microsoft one from 2000, all to no avail. There must be some farfle in the .ini files, registry, or driver configs that was a leftover from the upgrade (same on me for doing that right?). How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? Thanks -----Original Message----- Sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the 'correct' drivers. If it still doesn't help, you'll need to install the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter) which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web site. HTH and good luck Mart "Jasmine" wrote in message bl... The system will not allow me to change the display settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the computer. The settings do not change. Any suggestions? . . . . . |
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Did you ever check-out your BIOS settings for Monitor Resolution?
Mart wrote in message ... I had the WinMe CD in the bay. When I took it out, it rebooted fine. Unfortunately the display remains 'shrunk'. I think that it is stuck in a default state where it doesn't think it has anything but a basic VGA display. Regards -----Original Message----- OK, I guess (hope!!) that you still have floppy disk access? Try booting, using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot. At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space between the g and /) then press Enter. Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date, continuing with the instructions. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Let's hope that bings you back to a "working version" of WinMe Mart " wrote in message ... Well, I did something in Safe Mode that must have really crushed the system. When I reboot it never launches the Windows Me screen any more and hangs at the end of the BIOS load. All I tried to do was the get rid of the extra drivers lying around nmgc5.drv and nmgc6.drv. So the next step is to get rid of Windows Me and go back to Win98. WHAT A PAIN. -----Original Message----- I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode ..... Probably because you "Rebooted in Safe Mode". Your drivers are not loaded until your PC boots into Normal Mode. Good luck with rest of the exercise and be very careful around the bandsaw. Mart wrote in message . .. Well, I'll give that a try. I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode because some 'unknown' driver / program was loaded as directed by the config.sys (which is empty) or the autoexec.bat file. The next stop will be the bandsaw. -----Original Message----- Mmmm.. just a Wild A..ed Guess, but being a laptop, is there an option in the BIOS to change from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 screen display? I have (had - but a long story g) a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (circa. similar to yours) which needs to be adjusted this way to permit 800 x 600 display. However, you do 'seem' to suggest that you can actually achieve an 800 x 600 resolution but can't maintain it after a re-boot? In which case, I just wonder if you may need to try the process a couple of times in an effort to flush the registry of 'corrupted' (pnp) enumerations and perhaps look to see if you have any other old driver remnants on your hard drive - check the ..windows\inf sub-folders Mart " wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, but alas, the problem persists. I found the original NeoMagic MagicGraph XD driver at the Dell site (listed as for Win98) and brought it down. I uninstalled everything I could find in Device Manager while in Safe Mode. Rebooted, Windows identified the missing drivers and I led it to the Dell driver. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Changed the screen to 800 x 600. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Rebooted in Safe Mode. Interestingly, the 'Peformance Tab' tells me that I am running paging in MSDOS compatibility mode because some kind of driver was loaded by config.sys (which has NOTHING in it) and / or by autoexec.bat which only has a couple of window dir commands. So we are still stuck with a slow performing, tiny screen windows machine. This is worse than being a freshman wizard at Hogwarts, try ing spells and getting unrelated results. -----Original Message----- How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? By booting into Safe Mode and then opening Device Manager and use the 'Remove' option to delete - or more accurately 'remove' - any/all Display Adapters. (You will probably find 'several' there - whereas you'd only find one in Normal Mode - hence the need to do it in Safe Mode) When you re-boot, WinMe will detect that drivers are required and you must point it to the original NeoMagic (or whatever was supplied by Dell) drivers, BEFORE WinMe tries to install its own default drivers. Confirm that you do have the correct WinMe compatible drivers for your specific laptop model by checking their availability on Dell's website. Mart " wrote in message ... We have a similar problem with our Dell Latitude laptop. AFter installing the final MS Windows ME software update, our display went to 640x480-16 and refuses to change back to any larger size. We've tried everything including going back to the VGA adapter, then upgrading to the NeoMagic 128XD driver from 1999 and then the Microsoft one from 2000, all to no avail. There must be some farfle in the .ini files, registry, or driver configs that was a leftover from the upgrade (same on me for doing that right?). How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? Thanks -----Original Message----- Sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the 'correct' drivers. If it still doesn't help, you'll need to install the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter) which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web site. HTH and good luck Mart "Jasmine" wrote in message news:791701c49509$724a6920$a301280a@phx. gbl... The system will not allow me to change the display settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the computer. The settings do not change. Any suggestions? . . . . . |
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As best I can tell there's no opportunity to check out the
Monitor Resolution in the BIOS settings. The only BIOS settings that I can find are those that show up when you hit F2 during the BIOS load. Are there more? Thank you -----Original Message----- Did you ever check-out your BIOS settings for Monitor Resolution? Mart wrote in message ... I had the WinMe CD in the bay. When I took it out, it rebooted fine. Unfortunately the display remains 'shrunk'. I think that it is stuck in a default state where it doesn't think it has anything but a basic VGA display. Regards -----Original Message----- OK, I guess (hope!!) that you still have floppy disk access? Try booting, using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot. At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space between the g and /) then press Enter. Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date, continuing with the instructions. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Let's hope that bings you back to a "working version" of WinMe Mart " wrote in message ... Well, I did something in Safe Mode that must have really crushed the system. When I reboot it never launches the Windows Me screen any more and hangs at the end of the BIOS load. All I tried to do was the get rid of the extra drivers lying around nmgc5.drv and nmgc6.drv. So the next step is to get rid of Windows Me and go back to Win98. WHAT A PAIN. -----Original Message----- I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode ..... Probably because you "Rebooted in Safe Mode". Your drivers are not loaded until your PC boots into Normal Mode. Good luck with rest of the exercise and be very careful around the bandsaw. Mart wrote in message .. . Well, I'll give that a try. I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode because some 'unknown' driver / program was loaded as directed by the config.sys (which is empty) or the autoexec.bat file. The next stop will be the bandsaw. -----Original Message----- Mmmm.. just a Wild A..ed Guess, but being a laptop, is there an option in the BIOS to change from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 screen display? I have (had - but a long story g) a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (circa. similar to yours) which needs to be adjusted this way to permit 800 x 600 display. However, you do 'seem' to suggest that you can actually achieve an 800 x 600 resolution but can't maintain it after a re-boot? In which case, I just wonder if you may need to try the process a couple of times in an effort to flush the registry of 'corrupted' (pnp) enumerations and perhaps look to see if you have any other old driver remnants on your hard drive - check the ..windows\inf sub-folders Mart " wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, but alas, the problem persists. I found the original NeoMagic MagicGraph XD driver at the Dell site (listed as for Win98) and brought it down. I uninstalled everything I could find in Device Manager while in Safe Mode. Rebooted, Windows identified the missing drivers and I led it to the Dell driver. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Changed the screen to 800 x 600. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Rebooted in Safe Mode. Interestingly, the 'Peformance Tab' tells me that I am running paging in MSDOS compatibility mode because some kind of driver was loaded by config.sys (which has NOTHING in it) and / or by autoexec.bat which only has a couple of window dir commands. So we are still stuck with a slow performing, tiny screen windows machine. This is worse than being a freshman wizard at Hogwarts, try ing spells and getting unrelated results. -----Original Message----- How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? By booting into Safe Mode and then opening Device Manager and use the 'Remove' option to delete - or more accurately 'remove' - any/all Display Adapters. (You will probably find 'several' there - whereas you'd only find one in Normal Mode - hence the need to do it in Safe Mode) When you re-boot, WinMe will detect that drivers are required and you must point it to the original NeoMagic (or whatever was supplied by Dell) drivers, BEFORE WinMe tries to install its own default drivers. Confirm that you do have the correct WinMe compatible drivers for your specific laptop model by checking their availability on Dell's website. Mart " wrote in message ... We have a similar problem with our Dell Latitude laptop. AFter installing the final MS Windows ME software update, our display went to 640x480-16 and refuses to change back to any larger size. We've tried everything including going back to the VGA adapter, then upgrading to the NeoMagic 128XD driver from 1999 and then the Microsoft one from 2000, all to no avail. There must be some farfle in the .ini files, registry, or driver configs that was a leftover from the upgrade (same on me for doing that right?). How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? Thanks -----Original Message----- Sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the 'correct' drivers. If it still doesn't help, you'll need to install the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter) which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web site. HTH and good luck Mart "Jasmine" wrote in message news:791701c49509$724a6920$a301280a@phx .gbl... The system will not allow me to change the display settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the computer. The settings do not change. Any suggestions? . . . . . . |
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As far as I can recall, on the Toshiba laptop, there is a "LCD Display
Stretch" option which must be set in the BIOS to affect the display size. Maybe!! you've got a similar option on your laptop. I guess that you're going to need the User Manual g However, if you're certain that you haven't altered any settings in the BIOS AND the display has worked 'normally' - at some recent time, then I can only suggest that you re-try my previous advice to "Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot." etc.. Good luck Mart "SarahFoote" wrote in message ... As best I can tell there's no opportunity to check out the Monitor Resolution in the BIOS settings. The only BIOS settings that I can find are those that show up when you hit F2 during the BIOS load. Are there more? Thank you -----Original Message----- Did you ever check-out your BIOS settings for Monitor Resolution? Mart wrote in message ... I had the WinMe CD in the bay. When I took it out, it rebooted fine. Unfortunately the display remains 'shrunk'. I think that it is stuck in a default state where it doesn't think it has anything but a basic VGA display. Regards -----Original Message----- OK, I guess (hope!!) that you still have floppy disk access? Try booting, using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot. At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space between the g and /) then press Enter. Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date, continuing with the instructions. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Let's hope that bings you back to a "working version" of WinMe Mart " wrote in message ... Well, I did something in Safe Mode that must have really crushed the system. When I reboot it never launches the Windows Me screen any more and hangs at the end of the BIOS load. All I tried to do was the get rid of the extra drivers lying around nmgc5.drv and nmgc6.drv. So the next step is to get rid of Windows Me and go back to Win98. WHAT A PAIN. -----Original Message----- I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode ..... Probably because you "Rebooted in Safe Mode". Your drivers are not loaded until your PC boots into Normal Mode. Good luck with rest of the exercise and be very careful around the bandsaw. Mart wrote in message . .. Well, I'll give that a try. I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode because some 'unknown' driver / program was loaded as directed by the config.sys (which is empty) or the autoexec.bat file. The next stop will be the bandsaw. -----Original Message----- Mmmm.. just a Wild A..ed Guess, but being a laptop, is there an option in the BIOS to change from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 screen display? I have (had - but a long story g) a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (circa. similar to yours) which needs to be adjusted this way to permit 800 x 600 display. However, you do 'seem' to suggest that you can actually achieve an 800 x 600 resolution but can't maintain it after a re-boot? In which case, I just wonder if you may need to try the process a couple of times in an effort to flush the registry of 'corrupted' (pnp) enumerations and perhaps look to see if you have any other old driver remnants on your hard drive - check the ..windows\inf sub-folders Mart " wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, but alas, the problem persists. I found the original NeoMagic MagicGraph XD driver at the Dell site (listed as for Win98) and brought it down. I uninstalled everything I could find in Device Manager while in Safe Mode. Rebooted, Windows identified the missing drivers and I led it to the Dell driver. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Changed the screen to 800 x 600. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Rebooted in Safe Mode. Interestingly, the 'Peformance Tab' tells me that I am running paging in MSDOS compatibility mode because some kind of driver was loaded by config.sys (which has NOTHING in it) and / or by autoexec.bat which only has a couple of window dir commands. So we are still stuck with a slow performing, tiny screen windows machine. This is worse than being a freshman wizard at Hogwarts, try ing spells and getting unrelated results. -----Original Message----- How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? By booting into Safe Mode and then opening Device Manager and use the 'Remove' option to delete - or more accurately 'remove' - any/all Display Adapters. (You will probably find 'several' there - whereas you'd only find one in Normal Mode - hence the need to do it in Safe Mode) When you re-boot, WinMe will detect that drivers are required and you must point it to the original NeoMagic (or whatever was supplied by Dell) drivers, BEFORE WinMe tries to install its own default drivers. Confirm that you do have the correct WinMe compatible drivers for your specific laptop model by checking their availability on Dell's website. Mart " wrote in message ... We have a similar problem with our Dell Latitude laptop. AFter installing the final MS Windows ME software update, our display went to 640x480-16 and refuses to change back to any larger size. We've tried everything including going back to the VGA adapter, then upgrading to the NeoMagic 128XD driver from 1999 and then the Microsoft one from 2000, all to no avail. There must be some farfle in the .ini files, registry, or driver configs that was a leftover from the upgrade (same on me for doing that right?). How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? Thanks -----Original Message----- Sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the 'correct' drivers. If it still doesn't help, you'll need to install the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter) which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web site. HTH and good luck Mart "Jasmine" wrote in message news:791701c49509$724a6920$a301280a@ph x.gbl... The system will not allow me to change the display settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the computer. The settings do not change. Any suggestions? . . . . . . |
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Thanks. I have tried that several times and Windows does
the reinstall. I've tried it with both versions of the NeoMagic driver for the video adapter. I think that the 'Default' monitor (from Microsoft btw) that has a 2000 date on it has over written the default monitor that came from Dell. -----Original Message----- As far as I can recall, on the Toshiba laptop, there is a "LCD Display Stretch" option which must be set in the BIOS to affect the display size. Maybe!! you've got a similar option on your laptop. I guess that you're going to need the User Manual g However, if you're certain that you haven't altered any settings in the BIOS AND the display has worked 'normally' - at some recent time, then I can only suggest that you re-try my previous advice to "Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot." etc.. Good luck Mart "SarahFoote" wrote in message ... As best I can tell there's no opportunity to check out the Monitor Resolution in the BIOS settings. The only BIOS settings that I can find are those that show up when you hit F2 during the BIOS load. Are there more? Thank you -----Original Message----- Did you ever check-out your BIOS settings for Monitor Resolution? Mart wrote in message .. . I had the WinMe CD in the bay. When I took it out, it rebooted fine. Unfortunately the display remains 'shrunk'. I think that it is stuck in a default state where it doesn't think it has anything but a basic VGA display. Regards -----Original Message----- OK, I guess (hope!!) that you still have floppy disk access? Try booting, using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot. At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space between the g and /) then press Enter. Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date, continuing with the instructions. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Let's hope that bings you back to a "working version" of WinMe Mart " wrote in message ... Well, I did something in Safe Mode that must have really crushed the system. When I reboot it never launches the Windows Me screen any more and hangs at the end of the BIOS load. All I tried to do was the get rid of the extra drivers lying around nmgc5.drv and nmgc6.drv. So the next step is to get rid of Windows Me and go back to Win98. WHAT A PAIN. -----Original Message----- I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode ..... Probably because you "Rebooted in Safe Mode". Your drivers are not loaded until your PC boots into Normal Mode. Good luck with rest of the exercise and be very careful around the bandsaw. Mart wrote in message ... Well, I'll give that a try. I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode because some 'unknown' driver / program was loaded as directed by the config.sys (which is empty) or the autoexec.bat file. The next stop will be the bandsaw. -----Original Message----- Mmmm.. just a Wild A..ed Guess, but being a laptop, is there an option in the BIOS to change from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 screen display? I have (had - but a long story g) a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (circa. similar to yours) which needs to be adjusted this way to permit 800 x 600 display. However, you do 'seem' to suggest that you can actually achieve an 800 x 600 resolution but can't maintain it after a re-boot? In which case, I just wonder if you may need to try the process a couple of times in an effort to flush the registry of 'corrupted' (pnp) enumerations and perhaps look to see if you have any other old driver remnants on your hard drive - check the ..windows\inf sub-folders Mart " wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, but alas, the problem persists. I found the original NeoMagic MagicGraph XD driver at the Dell site (listed as for Win98) and brought it down. I uninstalled everything I could find in Device Manager while in Safe Mode. Rebooted, Windows identified the missing drivers and I led it to the Dell driver. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Changed the screen to 800 x 600. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Rebooted in Safe Mode. Interestingly, the 'Peformance Tab' tells me that I am running paging in MSDOS compatibility mode because some kind of driver was loaded by config.sys (which has NOTHING in it) and / or by autoexec.bat which only has a couple of window dir commands. So we are still stuck with a slow performing, tiny screen windows machine. This is worse than being a freshman wizard at Hogwarts, try ing spells and getting unrelated results. -----Original Message----- How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? By booting into Safe Mode and then opening Device Manager and use the 'Remove' option to delete - or more accurately 'remove' - any/all Display Adapters. (You will probably find 'several' there - whereas you'd only find one in Normal Mode - hence the need to do it in Safe Mode) When you re-boot, WinMe will detect that drivers are required and you must point it to the original NeoMagic (or whatever was supplied by Dell) drivers, BEFORE WinMe tries to install its own default drivers. Confirm that you do have the correct WinMe compatible drivers for your specific laptop model by checking their availability on Dell's website. Mart " wrote in message ... We have a similar problem with our Dell Latitude laptop. AFter installing the final MS Windows ME software update, our display went to 640x480-16 and refuses to change back to any larger size. We've tried everything including going back to the VGA adapter, then upgrading to the NeoMagic 128XD driver from 1999 and then the Microsoft one from 2000, all to no avail. There must be some farfle in the .ini files, registry, or driver configs that was a leftover from the upgrade (same on me for doing that right?). How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? Thanks -----Original Message----- Sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the 'correct' drivers. If it still doesn't help, you'll need to install the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter) which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web site. HTH and good luck Mart "Jasmine" wrote in message news:791701c49509$724a6920$a301280a@p hx.gbl... The system will not allow me to change the display settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the computer. The settings do not change. Any suggestions? . . . . . . . |
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Mmm.... Maybe it's the Monitor Driver (rather than the Display Driver) which
is causing the problem. Do you still have, or are you able to obtain a copy of, the 'original' Dell driver? MS generic 'defaults' aren't always the best solutions g - Must be worth a try if you still have it! Mart wrote in message ... Thanks. I have tried that several times and Windows does the reinstall. I've tried it with both versions of the NeoMagic driver for the video adapter. I think that the 'Default' monitor (from Microsoft btw) that has a 2000 date on it has over written the default monitor that came from Dell. -----Original Message----- As far as I can recall, on the Toshiba laptop, there is a "LCD Display Stretch" option which must be set in the BIOS to affect the display size. Maybe!! you've got a similar option on your laptop. I guess that you're going to need the User Manual g However, if you're certain that you haven't altered any settings in the BIOS AND the display has worked 'normally' - at some recent time, then I can only suggest that you re-try my previous advice to "Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot." etc.. Good luck Mart "SarahFoote" wrote in message ... As best I can tell there's no opportunity to check out the Monitor Resolution in the BIOS settings. The only BIOS settings that I can find are those that show up when you hit F2 during the BIOS load. Are there more? Thank you -----Original Message----- Did you ever check-out your BIOS settings for Monitor Resolution? Mart wrote in message . .. I had the WinMe CD in the bay. When I took it out, it rebooted fine. Unfortunately the display remains 'shrunk'. I think that it is stuck in a default state where it doesn't think it has anything but a basic VGA display. Regards -----Original Message----- OK, I guess (hope!!) that you still have floppy disk access? Try booting, using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot. At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space between the g and /) then press Enter. Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date, continuing with the instructions. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Let's hope that bings you back to a "working version" of WinMe Mart " wrote in message ... Well, I did something in Safe Mode that must have really crushed the system. When I reboot it never launches the Windows Me screen any more and hangs at the end of the BIOS load. All I tried to do was the get rid of the extra drivers lying around nmgc5.drv and nmgc6.drv. So the next step is to get rid of Windows Me and go back to Win98. WHAT A PAIN. -----Original Message----- I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode ..... Probably because you "Rebooted in Safe Mode". Your drivers are not loaded until your PC boots into Normal Mode. Good luck with rest of the exercise and be very careful around the bandsaw. Mart wrote in message l... Well, I'll give that a try. I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode because some 'unknown' driver / program was loaded as directed by the config.sys (which is empty) or the autoexec.bat file. The next stop will be the bandsaw. -----Original Message----- Mmmm.. just a Wild A..ed Guess, but being a laptop, is there an option in the BIOS to change from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 screen display? I have (had - but a long story g) a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (circa. similar to yours) which needs to be adjusted this way to permit 800 x 600 display. However, you do 'seem' to suggest that you can actually achieve an 800 x 600 resolution but can't maintain it after a re-boot? In which case, I just wonder if you may need to try the process a couple of times in an effort to flush the registry of 'corrupted' (pnp) enumerations and perhaps look to see if you have any other old driver remnants on your hard drive - check the ..windows\inf sub-folders Mart " wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, but alas, the problem persists. I found the original NeoMagic MagicGraph XD driver at the Dell site (listed as for Win98) and brought it down. I uninstalled everything I could find in Device Manager while in Safe Mode. Rebooted, Windows identified the missing drivers and I led it to the Dell driver. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Changed the screen to 800 x 600. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Rebooted in Safe Mode. Interestingly, the 'Peformance Tab' tells me that I am running paging in MSDOS compatibility mode because some kind of driver was loaded by config.sys (which has NOTHING in it) and / or by autoexec.bat which only has a couple of window dir commands. So we are still stuck with a slow performing, tiny screen windows machine. This is worse than being a freshman wizard at Hogwarts, try ing spells and getting unrelated results. -----Original Message----- How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? By booting into Safe Mode and then opening Device Manager and use the 'Remove' option to delete - or more accurately 'remove' - any/all Display Adapters. (You will probably find 'several' there - whereas you'd only find one in Normal Mode - hence the need to do it in Safe Mode) When you re-boot, WinMe will detect that drivers are required and you must point it to the original NeoMagic (or whatever was supplied by Dell) drivers, BEFORE WinMe tries to install its own default drivers. Confirm that you do have the correct WinMe compatible drivers for your specific laptop model by checking their availability on Dell's website. Mart " wrote in message ... We have a similar problem with our Dell Latitude laptop. AFter installing the final MS Windows ME software update, our display went to 640x480-16 and refuses to change back to any larger size. We've tried everything including going back to the VGA adapter, then upgrading to the NeoMagic 128XD driver from 1999 and then the Microsoft one from 2000, all to no avail. There must be some farfle in the .ini files, registry, or driver configs that was a leftover from the upgrade (same on me for doing that right?). How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? Thanks -----Original Message----- Sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the 'correct' drivers. If it still doesn't help, you'll need to install the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter) which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web site. HTH and good luck Mart "Jasmine" wrote in message news:791701c49509$724a6920$a301280a@ phx.gbl... The system will not allow me to change the display settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the computer. The settings do not change. Any suggestions? . . . . . . . |
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No, I don't have the original driver and Dell doesn't seem
to post it anywhere. I was given the computer when I "left" the hi tech company I worked for back in the fall of 2001. -----Original Message----- Mmm.... Maybe it's the Monitor Driver (rather than the Display Driver) which is causing the problem. Do you still have, or are you able to obtain a copy of, the 'original' Dell driver? MS generic 'defaults' aren't always the best solutions g - Must be worth a try if you still have it! Mart wrote in message ... Thanks. I have tried that several times and Windows does the reinstall. I've tried it with both versions of the NeoMagic driver for the video adapter. I think that the 'Default' monitor (from Microsoft btw) that has a 2000 date on it has over written the default monitor that came from Dell. -----Original Message----- As far as I can recall, on the Toshiba laptop, there is a "LCD Display Stretch" option which must be set in the BIOS to affect the display size. Maybe!! you've got a similar option on your laptop. I guess that you're going to need the User Manual g However, if you're certain that you haven't altered any settings in the BIOS AND the display has worked 'normally' - at some recent time, then I can only suggest that you re-try my previous advice to "Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot." etc.. Good luck Mart "SarahFoote" wrote in message .. . As best I can tell there's no opportunity to check out the Monitor Resolution in the BIOS settings. The only BIOS settings that I can find are those that show up when you hit F2 during the BIOS load. Are there more? Thank you -----Original Message----- Did you ever check-out your BIOS settings for Monitor Resolution? Mart wrote in message .. . I had the WinMe CD in the bay. When I took it out, it rebooted fine. Unfortunately the display remains 'shrunk'. I think that it is stuck in a default state where it doesn't think it has anything but a basic VGA display. Regards -----Original Message----- OK, I guess (hope!!) that you still have floppy disk access? Try booting, using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot. At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space between the g and /) then press Enter. Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date, continuing with the instructions. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Let's hope that bings you back to a "working version" of WinMe Mart " wrote in message ... Well, I did something in Safe Mode that must have really crushed the system. When I reboot it never launches the Windows Me screen any more and hangs at the end of the BIOS load. All I tried to do was the get rid of the extra drivers lying around nmgc5.drv and nmgc6.drv. So the next step is to get rid of Windows Me and go back to Win98. WHAT A PAIN. -----Original Message----- I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode ..... Probably because you "Rebooted in Safe Mode". Your drivers are not loaded until your PC boots into Normal Mode. Good luck with rest of the exercise and be very careful around the bandsaw. Mart wrote in message bl... Well, I'll give that a try. I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode because some 'unknown' driver / program was loaded as directed by the config.sys (which is empty) or the autoexec.bat file. The next stop will be the bandsaw. -----Original Message----- Mmmm.. just a Wild A..ed Guess, but being a laptop, is there an option in the BIOS to change from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 screen display? I have (had - but a long story g) a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (circa. similar to yours) which needs to be adjusted this way to permit 800 x 600 display. However, you do 'seem' to suggest that you can actually achieve an 800 x 600 resolution but can't maintain it after a re-boot? In which case, I just wonder if you may need to try the process a couple of times in an effort to flush the registry of 'corrupted' (pnp) enumerations and perhaps look to see if you have any other old driver remnants on your hard drive - check the ..windows\inf sub-folders Mart " wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, but alas, the problem persists. I found the original NeoMagic MagicGraph XD driver at the Dell site (listed as for Win98) and brought it down. I uninstalled everything I could find in Device Manager while in Safe Mode. Rebooted, Windows identified the missing drivers and I led it to the Dell driver. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Changed the screen to 800 x 600. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Rebooted in Safe Mode. Interestingly, the 'Peformance Tab' tells me that I am running paging in MSDOS compatibility mode because some kind of driver was loaded by config.sys (which has NOTHING in it) and / or by autoexec.bat which only has a couple of window dir commands. So we are still stuck with a slow performing, tiny screen windows machine. This is worse than being a freshman wizard at Hogwarts, try ing spells and getting unrelated results. -----Original Message----- How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? By booting into Safe Mode and then opening Device Manager and use the 'Remove' option to delete - or more accurately 'remove' - any/all Display Adapters. (You will probably find 'several' there - whereas you'd only find one in Normal Mode - hence the need to do it in Safe Mode) When you re-boot, WinMe will detect that drivers are required and you must point it to the original NeoMagic (or whatever was supplied by Dell) drivers, BEFORE WinMe tries to install its own default drivers. Confirm that you do have the correct WinMe compatible drivers for your specific laptop model by checking their availability on Dell's website. Mart " wrote in message ... We have a similar problem with our Dell Latitude laptop. AFter installing the final MS Windows ME software update, our display went to 640x480-16 and refuses to change back to any larger size. We've tried everything including going back to the VGA adapter, then upgrading to the NeoMagic 128XD driver from 1999 and then the Microsoft one from 2000, all to no avail. There must be some farfle in the .ini files, registry, or driver configs that was a leftover from the upgrade (same on me for doing that right?). How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? Thanks -----Original Message----- Sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the 'correct' drivers. If it still doesn't help, you'll need to install the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter) which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web site. HTH and good luck Mart "Jasmine" wrote in message news:791701c49509$724a6920$a301280a @phx.gbl... The system will not allow me to change the display settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the computer. The settings do not change. Any suggestions? . . . . . . . . |
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Sarah,
The best I can find is by doing a 'google' are plenty of NeoMagic 128XD drivers dating back to 1999 (and earlier). They are mostly 'free' downloads although you *may* have to register for them. Sorry that I can't help further Mart "Sarah Foote" wrote in message ... No, I don't have the original driver and Dell doesn't seem to post it anywhere. I was given the computer when I "left" the hi tech company I worked for back in the fall of 2001. -----Original Message----- Mmm.... Maybe it's the Monitor Driver (rather than the Display Driver) which is causing the problem. Do you still have, or are you able to obtain a copy of, the 'original' Dell driver? MS generic 'defaults' aren't always the best solutions g - Must be worth a try if you still have it! Mart wrote in message ... Thanks. I have tried that several times and Windows does the reinstall. I've tried it with both versions of the NeoMagic driver for the video adapter. I think that the 'Default' monitor (from Microsoft btw) that has a 2000 date on it has over written the default monitor that came from Dell. -----Original Message----- As far as I can recall, on the Toshiba laptop, there is a "LCD Display Stretch" option which must be set in the BIOS to affect the display size. Maybe!! you've got a similar option on your laptop. I guess that you're going to need the User Manual g However, if you're certain that you haven't altered any settings in the BIOS AND the display has worked 'normally' - at some recent time, then I can only suggest that you re-try my previous advice to "Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot." etc.. Good luck Mart "SarahFoote" wrote in message . .. As best I can tell there's no opportunity to check out the Monitor Resolution in the BIOS settings. The only BIOS settings that I can find are those that show up when you hit F2 during the BIOS load. Are there more? Thank you -----Original Message----- Did you ever check-out your BIOS settings for Monitor Resolution? Mart wrote in message . .. I had the WinMe CD in the bay. When I took it out, it rebooted fine. Unfortunately the display remains 'shrunk'. I think that it is stuck in a default state where it doesn't think it has anything but a basic VGA display. Regards -----Original Message----- OK, I guess (hope!!) that you still have floppy disk access? Try booting, using your Windows Startup (floppy) Disk and choose 4) Minimal Boot. At the A:\ prompt, type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes and note the space between the g and /) then press Enter. Follow the screen prompts and when asked, select the LAST 'good' date, continuing with the instructions. Don't forget to remove the floppy disk BEFORE you tell the machine to reboot. Let's hope that bings you back to a "working version" of WinMe Mart " wrote in message ... Well, I did something in Safe Mode that must have really crushed the system. When I reboot it never launches the Windows Me screen any more and hangs at the end of the BIOS load. All I tried to do was the get rid of the extra drivers lying around nmgc5.drv and nmgc6.drv. So the next step is to get rid of Windows Me and go back to Win98. WHAT A PAIN. -----Original Message----- I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode ..... Probably because you "Rebooted in Safe Mode". Your drivers are not loaded until your PC boots into Normal Mode. Good luck with rest of the exercise and be very careful around the bandsaw. Mart wrote in message news:03be01c4a028$bafbd9e0$a401280a@phx. gbl... Well, I'll give that a try. I still don't understand what it means in the 'Performance' tab when it says that WinMe is running in MSDOS compatibility mode because some 'unknown' driver / program was loaded as directed by the config.sys (which is empty) or the autoexec.bat file. The next stop will be the bandsaw. -----Original Message----- Mmmm.. just a Wild A..ed Guess, but being a laptop, is there an option in the BIOS to change from 640 x 480 to 800 x 600 screen display? I have (had - but a long story g) a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (circa. similar to yours) which needs to be adjusted this way to permit 800 x 600 display. However, you do 'seem' to suggest that you can actually achieve an 800 x 600 resolution but can't maintain it after a re-boot? In which case, I just wonder if you may need to try the process a couple of times in an effort to flush the registry of 'corrupted' (pnp) enumerations and perhaps look to see if you have any other old driver remnants on your hard drive - check the ..windows\inf sub-folders Mart " wrote in message ... Thanks for the help, but alas, the problem persists. I found the original NeoMagic MagicGraph XD driver at the Dell site (listed as for Win98) and brought it down. I uninstalled everything I could find in Device Manager while in Safe Mode. Rebooted, Windows identified the missing drivers and I led it to the Dell driver. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Changed the screen to 800 x 600. Rebooted. Same old small screen. Rebooted in Safe Mode. Interestingly, the 'Peformance Tab' tells me that I am running paging in MSDOS compatibility mode because some kind of driver was loaded by config.sys (which has NOTHING in it) and / or by autoexec.bat which only has a couple of window dir commands. So we are still stuck with a slow performing, tiny screen windows machine. This is worse than being a freshman wizard at Hogwarts, try ing spells and getting unrelated results. -----Original Message----- How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? By booting into Safe Mode and then opening Device Manager and use the 'Remove' option to delete - or more accurately 'remove' - any/all Display Adapters. (You will probably find 'several' there - whereas you'd only find one in Normal Mode - hence the need to do it in Safe Mode) When you re-boot, WinMe will detect that drivers are required and you must point it to the original NeoMagic (or whatever was supplied by Dell) drivers, BEFORE WinMe tries to install its own default drivers. Confirm that you do have the correct WinMe compatible drivers for your specific laptop model by checking their availability on Dell's website. Mart " wrote in message ... We have a similar problem with our Dell Latitude laptop. AFter installing the final MS Windows ME software update, our display went to 640x480-16 and refuses to change back to any larger size. We've tried everything including going back to the VGA adapter, then upgrading to the NeoMagic 128XD driver from 1999 and then the Microsoft one from 2000, all to no avail. There must be some farfle in the .ini files, registry, or driver configs that was a leftover from the upgrade (same on me for doing that right?). How exactly does one 'remove' the adapter, you noted below? Thanks -----Original Message----- Sounds like your Display Adapter driver is no longer being properly recognised, is incorrectly set-up, or is corrupted. Boot into Safe Mode and in Device Manager, 'Remove' any/all Display Adapters and Monitors and then re-boot. WinMe *should* re-detect (Plug&Play) your video card and monitor and then should install the 'correct' drivers. If it still doesn't help, you'll need to install the latest WinMe driver for your Video Card (Adapter) which you should be available to download from the card manufacturers web site. HTH and good luck Mart "Jasmine" wrote in message news:791701c49509$724a6920$a301280 ... The system will not allow me to change the display settings. Everytime I press the apply button to increase the pixels, the system prompts me to restart the computer. The settings do not change. Any suggestions? . . . . . . . . |
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