Graphics Card Trouble-Shooter

Please select from the following errors, if however the error you are getting doesn't
appear in the list please contact you printer manufacturer.

• ''All my icons look large, and I can only see in 16 colour, whats wrong?''

• ''When I play games my screen just goes blank!''

• ''I start up my machine and there is nothing on it!, I just hear 3 beeps.''

• ''I just have horizontal lines up and down the screen!''
  
  

• ''All my icons look large, and I can only see in 16 colour, whats wrong?''
  In this instance there are one of two fixes. One is that the graphics card driver has
  re-set to default, in which case you simply need to re-install your graphics card. To do
  this press F8 as your PC starts up just before the computer prints Starting Windows
  95/98 on the screen. You should then be presented by a screen which is titled
  Windows 95/98 start up menu, from here select Safe Mode. Once you are in safe
  mode click Start, Settings and Control Panel then System. From this you should see
  a tab labeled Device Manager click this. From the list you will see a heading for
  Display Adapters, click the plus sign next to this, now highlight it and click remove.
  Once you have done this Re-start the machine and follow the Graphics Card
  installation instructions from the main Tech Help menu.
  The other thing that may have happened is that the monitor may not be installed
  correctly, to check this right mouse button click once in you Desktop and choose
  properties from the menu, you should now be presented with the Display Properties,
  click the Settings tab and then select the Display adapter button. This should bring
  up another window, this window will have a heading for Monitor click this, now check
  that the monitor is correct, if it is not then click change and select your monitor type.

• ''When I play games my screen just goes blank!''
  This problem is normaly caused by old Direct X drivers, in these cases we would
  recomend getting updated drivers for your graphics card and possibly monitor, once
  you have installed these please remember to re-install Direct X so that it can pick up
  the new drivers, it might be an idea to check for a new version of Direct X at the same
  time.
  

• ''I start up my machine and there is nothing on it!, I just hear 3 beeps.''
  This means one of two things, the card may simply not be seated correctly in the slot,
  in which case re-seat it and try again. If however this doesn't work it may be that the
  card is faulty or damaged.

• ''I just have horizontal lines up and down the screen!''
  This will normally occur if the wrong display drivers have been installed, but it will
  also occur if you try to set your monitor refresh rate higher than the monitor of the
  graphics card can handle, to sort this problem out you will need to re-start your
  machine and enter safe mode as list above, in safe mode simply change it back to
  the setting which last worked.

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