Resolution lowest and colour donw to 8-bit

Hi was recently playing a game until my Pc crashed and restarted.

Upon reboot my resolution went down to the lowest possible and color at 8-bit.

I had searched other threads saying that its the driver for the Graphics card.
I updated both OS and nvidia Graphics card.

These are my Specs:

Windows 7 32-bit
Cpu Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 Ghz Q6600
Ram: 2Gb 1024 mhz
Motherboard: Rampage Formula
Graphics Card: Sparkle Nvidia 8800 GTX 512MB
PSU: 550watts

Now ive been with Windows 7 for a few months and never had any problems. I had not installed any new software not driver not even anti virus update, just out of the blues .

Any help would be very helpful.

Thanks for all the future help :)

Galadrim said:

Hi was recently playing a game until my Pc crashed and restarted.

Upon reboot my resolution went down to the lowest possible and color at 8-bit.

I had searched other threads saying that its the driver for the Graphics card.
I updated both OS and nvidia Graphics card.

These are my Specs:

Windows 7 32-bit
Cpu Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 Ghz Q6600
Ram: 2Gb 1024 mhz
Motherboard: Rampage Formula
Graphics Card: Sparkle Nvidia 8800 GTX 512MB
PSU: 550watts

Now ive been with Windows 7 for a few months and never had any problems. I had not installed any new software not driver not even anti virus update, just out of the blues .

Any help would be very helpful.

Thanks for all the future help :)

hi and welcome


lets verify that the driver is installed and working

type device manger in search. go to the display tab. is your griver listed? does it have a yellow triangle on it? Are there any other "unknown" drivers with yellow on them?

thanks

Ken J+

Hi thanks for the quick reply.

The only Yellow indication was on the graphics card itself and it was an exclamation mark.

I went on properties and googled the the error code and it was code 24.

now code 24 indicates its either driver problem or hardware problem.
I installed the latest driver which is 195.65 from the nvidia website.

So i ruled it out to be hardware failure from the Graphics card.( i inputted another graphics card an 8800gt and the resolution came to normal again.

Its Good news since i got my PC back and bad that i lost my Graphics card.

If you think it might have to do with the windows it would rarely light up my day but i have seen no thread of someone using that graphics card with this window so i wouldn't know and i don't have another pc with enough psu to test the 8800 on.