I tried replacing the hard drive in my XP maching with the hard drive from my ME machine but the colors don't show right. Its limiting itself to 16 colors instead of 256. Why does it do that? Is there any way to correct this? Everything else seems to work just fine its just the colors don't work and when I switch the hard drives back to their original computers the colors go back to normal. Someone help me please I just don't get it.
2006-09-14 09:22:28 · 7 answers · asked by ignernt 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
If you took the hard drive out of another comp you probably need to reinstall all your drivers. You are getting 16 colors because it is using legacy drivers for your video card.
Run Windows Update from your start menu. Choose Custom and make sure you select all the drivers listed in the hardware tab. You may even need to reinstall Windows entirely just to get all the right drivers for you motherboard.
2006-09-14 09:28:25 · answer #1 · answered by taskr36 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to install the right video driver. It is on the website of whoever made your video card. It may also be on a driver disk that came with your computer, but if it had XP out of the box there may only be XP drivers there. You certainly have other drivers that are messed up too. The OS on the other drive is set up for the hardware that it came from so you have the wrong drivers all the way around.
Just for the record. Windows ME is the worst piece of crap Microsoft ever put out. I'd rather have Windows 3.1. Hell I'd probably rather just use DOS and forget about the graphics. XP is solid. Why oh why would you do this to yourself?????????
You already have the XP license. Just format that drive and load XP from the disks that came with the computer, please. You might still have to fix a few drivers, but at least you won't have that god-forsaken Windows ME.
Did I mention that I really hate Windows ME???
2006-09-14 16:38:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows Millennium probably isn't loading the driver fro your video card.You would need to go and download the driver for the video card in your computer.Why you would want to replace XP with Millennium is an even bigger question.
2006-09-14 16:26:53 · answer #3 · answered by thatdamngood04 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has nothing to do with your hard drive did you install the
graphics driver for your computers video card after installing
XP?!
If you didn't you can always get the latest one from the vendors
websight if the video card isn't too ancient and install it.
2006-09-14 16:29:28 · answer #4 · answered by markm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it appears Windows ME was unable to identify your vga/agp card... in other words you dont have a valid driver already present there..
if your video driver is motherboard in-built then you need to fetch your motherboard CD for the video adapter
if you have a video card (VGA/AGP) then you need to get the manufacturer's CD that came with it
if you dont have a CD fret not :P
just visit the manufacturer's website (Microsoft : http://microsoft.com , AMD: http://amd.com , ASUS: http://www.asus.com , MSI: http://www.msi.com.tw etc..) OR Google it OR check out http://www.driverguide.com
2006-09-14 16:44:51 · answer #5 · answered by Shariq M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
adjust the colors from display properties
and why are you using ME edition any ways it's full of crap
it's the worst windows edition ever ... throw it away
2006-09-14 16:27:52 · answer #6 · answered by atultuff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so that windows could make more money
2006-09-14 16:30:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋