large visual display - Windows ME

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?

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
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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?

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
...
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?


.

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
...
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?


.

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
.. .
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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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
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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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