windows 98 display settings :(

hello everyone please can anyone help my kid has windows 98 running on her computer adn has bought a new game when we installed it it said we needed to change our display settings which i did some how! but today when she switched her computer on the screen was just all fuzzy and now i dont know what to do i know i must sound a bit thick but i am! anyone help????

 

lost some display settings

hi guys its me again!! the one that knows nothing !!! ok heres the problem now! after changing the display settings on my daughters computer and having a whole lotta trouble with a fuzzie screen i now have lost the other higher display settings (dont ask where!) its now only giving me a choice of two which are the lower settings and are no good for playing games! the highest one is 800 / 600 pixels16 bit and thats all the choices its giving me even the colour quality has just got the 1 choice now! any one with any ideas? thxs xxxx

 

Hi. I guess you wondered how you would see the menu on right click if the screen was all fuzzy when you read the last reply above mine.

Well do this instead

When you start the PC, just after the POST you will see a line say Windows 98 is starting.... before it goes to the Windows 98 startup logo screen. At the moment you see that line, and before the logo screen, you need to hit the F8 key to get a boot options menu. If this sounds hard to time, start tapping F8 towards the end of the POST process, and you will catch it that way.

It wont hurt to hit F8 early, but if you hit it way too soon, like as soon as you turn on the PC, you may get a keyboard error, like a "key stuck" error.

Anyway F8 at the right time at the start of Windows booting will give you a boot menu. Start windows in Safe Mode . When boot completes in Safe Mode, you can change your display settings in control panel to a more appropriate resolution, or to how it was before the change that caused the error.

Then restart your PC. It will be fine. It automatically starts in normal mode next time you reboot. To get Safe Mode you have to invoke the boot options menu each time.

Hope this helps

 

You need take a look at your settings in "device manager" and make sure the correct manufacturer specific video adapter and monitor are being used and either or both are not having a problem.
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You can open Device Manager by double-clicking on the System icon in Control Panel, and choosing the Device Manager tab. It is also accessible by right-clicking on My Computer, selecting Properties, and selecting the Device Manager tab.

You may have to refresh/update/reinstall the drivers for the adapter or reinstall/update the adapter to correctly reflect your specific kind/brand/board/chipset of adapter and drivers, depending on what you find in device manager.

Do you know what your video graphics card adapter is or should be? Do you have updated drivers or software for it? These may either be on the win98 CD, your OEM CD, your harddrive, or if you have downloaded the latest drivers that work with your system (the latest may not be the greatest), they would be.. where ever you downloaded them to. For further help, I will be waiting for your answers.

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What was this game?

Provided that the adapter drivers aren't corrupt you may be able to save yourself some trouble by rolling back the registry to a time that predates your current problem if it happened in less than five days or five (24 hr or more) dated shutdowns. Are you familiar with how scanreg saves backups and how to restore these? You can restart in dos mode and use the command line of scanreg /restore from the dialog box that pops up you can choose a dated backup that predates your current problem. You may lose registry info on anything you have installed after the date you choose (such as this game "name unknown ").You may have to reinstall this game and any software or update that you have done after the date chosen.

If rolling back the registry did not help you can repeat the process and undo what you did by choosing either "today's or yesterday's" date.

http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/start-145.shtml

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Additional links that may be helpful:
Select or change your monitor:
http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/tune-023.shtml

Change the refresh rate of your monitor:
http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/tune-024.shtml

Change color depth with out restarting:
http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/tune-29.shtml

 

boofuls, I merged both of your threads, it is the same problem.