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Hi to you all hope someone can help?
After deleting some software using add/delete software from control panal I can only display VGA whre before I had SVGA. The motherboard is a jetway 531cf and appears to have an on board chip as there is no separate card. The system is not picking up any devices on the Standard PCI VGA settings. Someone suggested I may have deleted the drivers but to be honest I haven't a clue - does anyone know what to do to get the colours back ?

Regards.

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A missing or wrong display driver is the usual reason Windows falls back to the very basic VGA mode after removing software. The board's integrated video needs its specific driver (supplied by the motherboard or chipset maker) to restore higher resolutions and full color depth. Kudos to for pointing the OP toward the correct driver source and to for following up.

Practical recovery steps:

  • Confirm the exact operating system and identify the video device (use Device Manager on newer Windows or a small hardware-ID utility on older systems).
  • Obtain the matching driver package from the motherboard or chipset vendor. If the download is an archive, extract it to a local folder and either run the supplied setup.exe or use the "Have Disk" / manual driver install option and point Windows at the folder containing the .inf.
  • If the new driver will not install normally, boot to Safe Mode, uninstall the display adapter (choose to remove driver files if offered), reboot and try the install again.
  • Check BIOS settings to ensure onboard video is enabled and any shared-memory options are set appropriately.
  • Install or verify the monitor driver so Windows exposes the correct color depth and refresh-rate choices. As a last resort, test with a simple discrete PCI video card to separate software/driver issues from hardware faults.

Troubleshooting tips: make sure the driver package matches the OS (old drivers for newer OS or vice versa will fail). Keep a copy of working drivers once installed. Avoid untrusted "driver packs" that bundle unrelated software. If problems persist after reinstalling, update motherboard chipset drivers as well—integrated video often depends on them.

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down load this program it will tell you what video chip set you have in your computer .post back here what it is ,open the program and under file there is a tool bar on that you will see 4or 5 icons one is called chipset info this is where you will see vga display type .
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html

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Here's the website to download drivers for you board .Match the video display # from WCPUID with the right one on the download site here .

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Thanks caperjack the information is really appreciated. I have been on the first site and looked at the info displayed and it is as follows: vendor 1039, device 6306, rev.A3, sub 63061039, SiS 620/530. I have also been on the second site but it appears gobblegook to me. I have tried to download a couple of files but they just end up as a cab file !!! on my computor - is this normal?Thanks for the help so far

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on the download site the video drivers are listed near the top .if you are using win98 its the 3 one in the list .its a 15.2 meg file and its a zip file ,unzip and look for a setup .exe file to run the install .

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Caperjack, can't thank you enough the sites provided the goods and now the colours are all there. Endeavoured to send you a personal email to thank you but your email unavailable - can understand that.. so I hope you see this to know how much I appreciated your help.

Thanks once again..Regards, Wayne

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Your welcome glad I could help !:)

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