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To: Gottfried who wrote (1548)	1/13/1999 9:20:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Gottfried, The extent of my experience with monitors is installing a video driver on a fresh Win95 install. I was pretty happy with myself. Hopefully someone else will come along who has experience with this stuff. Until then, I'd be glad to take a coupla guesses. If you go into Control Panel/Display and choose Settings and Advanced Properties, there is a tab for Monitor. What does it say next to the picture of the monitor? Mine says PnP Monitor. If I understand your post, yours should say the GoldStar model that you told Windows you are using. If this is the case, then I wouldn't think Windows is using PnP settings, otherwise it would have said you have a PnP monitor rather than a Goldstar. Were you able to find the exact GoldStar model that you have from the list when you chose "Show all Devices"? If not then you may have to locate the driver for that monitor and install it. Other than that I would maybe try lowering the refresh rate if you can find where that setting is adjusted, but I know you can harm a monitor by having the wrong refresh rate, so go at your own risk. >>PS: another topic - the HP Pavilion came with a rescue CD. If the software gets corrupted just run the CD and it restores the factory software installation I wonder how well that works and how it compares to fixes such as having an image of the original install on another drive, or using something like Norton Utilities? wily