Video Settings

[Eitechea]

My mother in-law has a Pentium 3 933 computer. It has a TTX 8997 19 inch monitor with an ATI 32 meg video card.
When I go to display properties it says it has a standard display adapter ( VGA ) it only lists the options for colours at 16 colours or 2 colours. The highest resolution it will go to is 640 X 480.

In system devices there is a yellow flag that says Advanced Configuration and power interface ( ACPI ) Bios

Device Status

Windows could not load the driver for this device because the computer is reporting two ACPI. SYS bus types. ( code2 )
Contact your computer manufacturer to get an updated BIOS for your computer.

If this was my system I would have just gone in and deleted the video adapter then rebooted the system and hoped it would pick up the proper video settings from the video card.

Any ideas?

 

[blueribb]

You didn't mention what operating system is running. (Windows 98 or XP ?)

You have to install the correct ATI drivers before you can choose more than 16 colors.
Pull the video card out and write down all the numbers you can find on a piece of paper.
Then visit the ATI website and download the correct drivers for the model ATI you have along with the correct operating system.

As long as the computer is shutting down correctly, I would forget about the ACPI error.

 

[eklass]

try turning off ACPI in your bios

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: eklass
try turning off ACPI in your bios

Don't you need to reinstall the OS with ACPI disable for it to be completely disabled as well?

Anyways, sounds like the drivers weren't loaded... so why can't you go in and reinstall the drivers?