Monitor ?

My monitor is only showing 16 colors, is the monitor the limitation here? I am presently having video driver porblems, i have replaced my hard drive and don't have the driver. Will the driver fix this problem? I have a pavilion 7850 - 933MHz so its not a whimpy pc. thanks for any info.

 

Pauly...If you just replaced your HD and installed
Windows, The 16 colors is from the generic driver that windows installs for your monitor. In your device manager go to the video adapter and the driver page and say change driver. The idea is to choose a different driver. You'll be surprised how many windows has in it. If you can you should look at your video card and maybe get a manufacturer and model number from it. Good luck....
Bill

 

I'd like to remind you that Windows has separate driver for graphics adapter and monitor, either of them can restrict the display to 16-bit colour, you should attempt to update both to the correct drivers and version.

 

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