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March 13th 06, 10:17 PM
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Problem with Video display?
Hello,
The old Win-98 PC that I rebuilt goews into the safe mode at start up. It changes the display to 640x480 and 16 colors. Can somebody tell me why this would happen and what I should do about it? Many thanks in advance. Bernard 
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March 13th 06, 10:44 PM
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Problem with Video display?
video drivers are bunk
hit the F8 key (before the text starting windows) at startup and select 'normal' "Bob Lehrer" wrote in message . .. Hello, The old Win-98 PC that I rebuilt goews into the safe mode at start up. It changes the display to 640x480 and 16 colors. Can somebody tell me why this would happen and what I should do about it? Many thanks in advance. Bernard
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March 14th 06, 01:10 AM
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Problem with Video display?
"Bob Lehrer" wrote in message . .. Hello, The old Win-98 PC that I rebuilt goews into the safe mode at start up. It changes the display to 640x480 and 16 colors. Can somebody tell me why this would happen and what I should do about it? Many thanks in advance. Bernard Safe Mode is a diagnostic mode that loads windows without the normal video driver. It uses a generic VGA driver and always uses 640x480x16. You need to know why the box is booting into Safe Mode. Usually because of a device failure which could include the drivers. While in Safe Mode go to the Device Manager and check to see if there is anything obvious. If not, you need to pinpoint the problem device and/or it's driver through process of elimination.
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