256 color monitor problem on Windows 95 Pentium computer

[wimn]

Recently I acquired a Philips 220BLP/B4L 22 inch LCD 1680x1050 monitor (I think from 2012) for my old Highscreen Pentium Windows 95 computer, with Horizon 64 1.0 video card. Now I am trying to get 256 colors (or more) in stead of 16. The monitor drivers I find from Philips are for Windows XP and upwards, they dont work. I see this is a widespread problem on the Internet, on YouTube too. I tried several things people say should work, but have not been succesfull. Has anyone here a good idea?

 

[NeXT]

The monitor (in 98% of cases) cannot dictate to the computer what the maximum color depth is. If you are stuck at 16 colors in 9x that is because the video card only has the ultra-generic VGA driver loaded.

 

[Timo W.]

Or rather, you did not install the drivers for the graphics card.

Once those are installed, Windows should also detect the monitor itself.

 

[Brian Todd]

I suspect that Timo is correct. If you check the Display Adaptor under Device Manager, then you will see which display driver is loaded. Windows 95 only had a limited number of display drivers, so you will need to manually install the driver yourself. The correct drivers can be found at:

STB Systems Windows 95 Video Drivers Download

STB Systems driver. STB Systems Video Drivers. () This site maintains listings of video and graphics drivers available on the web, organized by company. Includes links to useful resources.

www.video-drivers.com

 

[wimn]

Thanks for pointing out that it wasn't the monitor drivers I should worry about. I found an old diskette (from the year 1995) with drivers for the display adapter, found the right one and it worked. Thanks a lot!

 

[Brian Todd]

Fantastic, glad you got it sorted Wim!