andylan0303

The motherboard is a Dell 02x378 Video card is a standard VGA, Monitor is Dell 2007FP-20", running on Vista Ultimate professional

It is a Dell computer, the graphics and sound are integrated into the motherboard. The drivers (according to the device manager) are the most suitable for the hardware installed. Do you think that if I installed sp1 and sp2 it might help? at this moment I don't actualy know what the motherboard model is, I will have to open her up again and see what I can find.

Hi I have just put a new hard drive into a Dell ACPI x86 Base and have a Dell 2007FP (Analog) monitor. I was running XP with this setup and had no problems. I have just put a new hard drive in and installed Vista Ultimate, I am now stuck with a screen resolution of 640by480 with High colour 16 bit. It will not let me select a higher resoluton by moving the tag along the bar, when asking it to list all modes it gives me 640 by 480, 16 colours, 640 by 480 256 colours, 800 by 600 256 colours, 1024 by 768 256 colours and 640 by 480 high coour 16 bit. If I select any of the other options and apply it the screen goes down to 8 bit colour and you can't read much of the screen at all. I have checked that the drivers for the graphics adaptor is upto date and that the driver for the monitor is also upto date. Has anyone got any suggestions it is impossible using this setup and being able to see a decent amount of a web page or text on the monitor, it's a lovely 22" monitor and was working fine before I installed Vista, I have not had this problem on any of the HP computers that I have upgraded. Thank Andrea

I have had two of these external hard drive cases the one I would recommend is the akasa integral for 3.5" IDE drives.The version with an ejectable drive mount is by far the best and easiest to use, I have used this for copying back-ups from several hard drives in our house (we have 5 pc's being used at home) I also format the old drives and then put them into new casings and instal windows fresh inside the new case. Then all the data that has been backed up can be copied onto the new PC. Have fun, I certainly have had when sorting out old and new computers.