[gasboy]

I just bought a used compaq armada model 3500 laptop. It came with a reformatted hardrive so I installed windows 98se on it. Everything seems towork just fine except for the screen. It has a 1-2" gap on all four sides of the screen. Additionally, pictures as well as some text don't display very well at all. I have tried changing the screen resolution through the display properties but it will not adjust from its 640x480 to 800x600. Also, it offers only two colors: 2 or 16. Do I have a bad video card or is there some way I can get the current card to work properly? Thank you in advance.

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I forgot to add that in the device manager it says that I have a standard pci graphics adapter with the driver being a vga.dri

[gasboy]

I forgot to add that in the device manager it says that I have a standard pci graphics adapter with the driver being a vga.dri

[gerryf]

you likely need the video driver for it...there are multiple versions of that laptop

check your model more closely

http://h10025.www1.h...en&cc=us&dlc=en

[gasboy]

Thank you Gerry. That did the trick. Now if I can just get the cd-rom on my other laptop to work I'll be very happy.