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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: kdem on March 11, 2005, 06:39:54 PM

Title: switched hard drives, now problems
Post by: kdem on March 11, 2005, 06:39:54 PM

I had an HP pavilion that had a bad power supply that fried everything except the hard drive.  I had a seconc HP pavilion that had a bad hard drive but everything else worked. I took the good drive out of the fried HP and put it in the second HP.  I now have a working computer but some error messages are coming up and my biggest problem is that my monitor will now only support either 2 color or 16 color, therefore,  it looks like I am running in safe mode.  I have tried updating drivers for my monitor but it didn't work.  I thought about wiping the drive and reloading windows 98 but I can't find that version, only windows 95.  I have an HP recovery disk that I can't get to work.  Does anyone have any suggestions other than buying a new computer?

Title: Re: switched hard drives, now problems
Post by: gussery on March 11, 2005, 07:17:43 PM

You want to update the drivers for your video card, not your monitor.

Title: Re: switched hard drives, now problems
Post by: kdem on March 12, 2005, 12:48:22 PM

How do you find out what video card you have to know what driver to install?

Title: Re: switched hard drives, now problems
Post by: ojas25 on March 12, 2005, 01:30:45 PM

HI sounds like you may need to install motherboard drivers, if you don't have a seperate video card then it's the M/B you need to install the drivers, if you do have a video card then the it's drivers need to be installed. If you don't have software like Belarc installed you may need to look and see if there is a video card fitted.8)

Title: Re: switched hard drives, now problems
Post by: Computer_Commando on March 12, 2005, 03:43:05 PM

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How do you find out what video card you have to know what driver to install?

http://www.hp.com