Re: Lower colour depth on XP than on Windows 2000
- From: "Cari \(MS-MVP\)" <Newsgroups1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:05:51 -0800
You're very welcome.
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Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows
"Quasimodo" <Quasimodo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks very much for the speedy reply, Cari. I downloaded the drivers,
uninstalled the ones I'd downloaded from the Leadtek site, switched off my
anti-virus protection, and installed. I was impressed to see that XP
didn't
protest about the drivers not being digitally signed, and not having been
certified for use with XP (as it had with the drivers from the Leadtek
site),
and even more impressed that after I'd installed and restarted, I could
change the resolution to 1600x1200, and found that the colour depth was 32
bit. Now I can watch pictures from my digital TV tuner card in full
glorious
colour :)
Thanks again
Ian
"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
Try the graphics drivers from nVidia.com (www.nvidia.com)
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Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows
"Quasimodo" <Quasimodo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a reasonable spec PC with (amongst other things) Athlon 1400 CPU,
512MB RAM and Leadtek Winfast Titanium 500 graphics card (64MB video
memory)
driving a Sony SDM-S204 flat panel monitor (native resolution
1600x1200)
via
the analogue output of the video card (I use the digital output from
another
PC to drive the digital input of the monitor).
The PC came with Windows 2000 Professional installed, and this happily
drives the monitor with a resolution of 1600x1200 at a colour depth of
32
bits.
I recently decided to upgrade to Windows XP Professional, which I
decided
to
install on a separate partition so that I could carry on using Win 2K
until I
have the Win XP set up to my liking. I was surprised to find that after
I
had
done the basic install of XP and downloaded and installed the latest
drivers
from the Leadtek web site:
- Using the NVIDIA graphics setup applet, with a resolution of
1600x1200,
I
could only choose between 8-bit colour and 16-bit colour - no 32-bit
colour;
- Using the NVIDIA graphics setup applet, starting with a resolution of
800x600 and 32-bit colour, the highest resolution I could choose was
1600x1024 (which looks dreadful on a flat panel monitor!).
- If I went to the "Settings" tab of the display properties and chose
1600x1200 resolution with 32-bit colour, and clicked on "Apply", the
display
blanked and the monitor gave me a warning that the signal was out of
range.
Fortunately, after a delay of about 15 seconds the settings reverted to
1600x1200 with 16-bit colour, and I could work again.
Can anybody point to a way out of the impasse please (apart from buying
a
new graphics card...)? It seems most odd that the card will work
happily
with
1600x1200 resolution and 32-bit colour in Win 2K but not in Win XP.
Thanks in advance
Ian Park
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