Thread: please help me people

I am in desperate need of your assistance.

My problem.

Earlier today I had been on my computer and I shut it down with no problems .
Now tonight I have switched it on and I am stuck in a trashy graphics mode with 16 colors and blocky pixels.
I thought no troubles just go into settings and alter the color and resolutions . Then I restarted my computer expecting everything to tearn out nice .It didnt. I repeated the process but it just stays in the 16 color mode.

Please someone help.

Any one any ideas or do I need to provide any more information

Thanks.

This is known to happen in Windows 9x/2K/Me from time to time. Essentially a higher-order of the video driver didn't load, so you are getting basic VGA capability. (Be thankful it came up at all). Here are some possible fixes:

1) DON'T do anything. Simply restart. Windows may resolve the startup problem.

2) Reinstall your video driver, using Betazep's advice, or your driver disk(s). If necessary, repatch with any updates.

Thanks guys,

Betazeps advice worked (you are a star)

Unfortunately I have lost all sound on my computer now.
I have tried checking to make sure the speakers are okay and they are.

Do you fine people have any suggestions for problem.
One thing I have noticed is that there is no little speaker icon in the bottom left corner of the screen.

Any help or information would be much appreciated

Thanks

Here is some more information on my problem .

Firstly I am using Windows ME.

I have gone into sounds and multimedia in the settings and in the audio section I am told that I have no playback devices.

I am still fairly new to computers so I am apprehensive about what action to take. The only ideas I can think of are

1. Use Betazeps solution to my earlier problem but this time remove the some other related device. I dont know which one ?

2. Remove all my sound codecs and let my windows multimedia media player find them.

Please someone help me out here.

but I don?t think the speaker icon has any thing to do with it because I don?t have it either.

So you don't even know there is an option to turn it on/off in Windows?

nope didn't know that. I just found it.

Can I congratulate you Series. I think this is the first thing you ever said that was interesting to me.

Thx, but I’m not going to use it anyway