what happened to my moniter driver?!

Hi, i'm running windows 98 standard. recently, i was looking in the device manager and i decided to update my graphics(? i think, or my moniter)driver and windows said it found a better driver to install. when it finished, i was reduced to eight bit color and a smal screen resoulution. what can i do to get my driver back?

 

To clarify it is your graphics driver.

Do you know what your graphic card/chipset is?

Try rebooting in safe mode (tap F8 durig restart) and setting your resolution to 640x480 16bit. Then restart normally and hopefully other resolutions/bit depths will be available.

 

It didnt work, i could'nt use F8 so i crt-alt-delete-ed while windows was starting up and then started in safe mode. can i do anything else? My chip type NOW is:MONO, DAC type is internal, but i dont think that's very useful. Is there something free i can download? please help, every thing i see is giving me a headache most of the backgrounds are dots. i ran different drivers but all i got to was 16 colors and the smallest resoulution.

 

So I've had a cold since friday and I'm feeling pretty bad. I decide to install a CD-ROM drive 'cuz the front is black and it would look cool on my tower. Bear in mind I got this drive at a garage sale a while ago and never touched it until now. I setup the drive and boot windows, and this pop-up comes up and gives me these options:load drivers, register, exit. I'm thinking "what the hell have I done now?" so I thought I did'nt have anything to lose so I loaded the drivers. Windows restarted with my display looking better than before! I was wondering what did this(I was changeing options everywhere) and I ejected the new drive. There was a disc in there that said: MSI Multimedia Beyond 3D. It would appear it has a bunch of different stuff I have no idea what they are, it loaded NVIDA or something like that, and it's got VGA Driver, MSI 3D Turbo, Adobe Acrobat Reader lockboxetc. But it has appeared to fix the problem. So call it-Lucky,or something else.

 

EKOS, downlaod and install either Everest or SIW. These will tell you just about everything you wanted to know about your system - In particular, your Chipset as Wildfire had mentioned.

Having this information will be helpful in the future. And either of these two programs will be helpful in guiding you to the right place to download the proper drivers for your system.

 

Sometimes Win98 needs a jolt to get things right, such as when you added the CDRom.
FYI, and others, you could have reverted to the older drivers by restoring the previous day's registry. Select Shutdown, but choose to Restart in Dos Mode, and type in this command "scanreg /restore ", then you will get a choice of backup registries to use.