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Changing Resolution and Number of Colors
When shipped, your computer is set to the default resolution and color. The default
resolution is 800 x 600 at 64k color. To change the resolution and the number of
colors, perform the following:
1.
In the Display Properties dialog box, select Settings.
2.
Select the number of the colors in the Colors, and select the resolution in
Screen area. Refer to the table below.
3.
Click OK twice.
Resolutions and Colors you can choose
Resolution
LCD
640 x 480
256
64K
16M
800 x 600
256
64K
16M
1024 x 768
Not available
1280 x 1024
Not available
1600 x 1200
Not available
*
The number of colors in this mode is made using a Dithering algorithm(on the
internal LCD only).
You cannot switch to a display resolution and number of colors that are not
available.
In the Color Palette, High Color (16 bit) means 65,536 (64K) colors, and
True Color (24 bit) means about 16,770,000 (16M) colors.
If you select True Color (24 bit) in the Color Palette,
* The drawing speed of screen is decreased.
* The speed of displaying video or animation is decreased.
* You cannot use multiple monitors.
Note that the above resolutions are ones that you can choose when you
connect a monitor with appropriate resolution.
Number of Colors
CRT
256
64K
*
16M
256
64K
*
16M
256
64K
256
256
Simultaneous
Display(LCD + CRT)
256
64K
*
16M
256
64K
*
16M
Not available
Not available
Not available
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