Screen goes black&white on startup

[Jan-Wouter_Stigter@adobeforums.com]

I installed InDesign 2.0 on a Pentium II, 300 Mhz, 192MB RAM machine.
After installation everything works fine, but after a restart the screen goes black and white, even though the programme is not 'loaded'.

Uninstalling sorts the problem out, reinstalling brings it back exactly as above. I also have CorelDraw 12 installed.

Thanks for any help!

[Ken_Grace@adobeforums.com]

That machine spec is only just above the minimum required for InDesign to
run. Whether that's what's killing your colour I don't know. But I would
guess that even if you got your colour back you would be a bit disappointed
with performance.

k

[George_Bilalis@adobeforums.com]

That machine is also specified circa late 1987, early 1988. We are six years later.
What OS is this machine running?

rgrds
George

[Ken_Grace@adobeforums.com]

"We are six years later"


2004 - 1988 = 16 George :-)

k

[George_Bilalis@adobeforums.com]

Well, my mistake. I was actually refering to 1997-1998 but slipped on the keyboard. LOL
Back in 1988 you would be king of the world to have such a machine. I had a 80386 at 30Mhz with 48Mb RAM and 40MB HDD running CCPM-86 <grn>

rgrds
George

[Jan-Wouter_Stigter@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the comments. InDesign 2.0 also runs on a Pentium 4 in another office, without any problems. So the specs could be a problem, although not according to Adobe own 'system requirements'.

The Pentium II is 'only' about 5 years old, but of course that's an age nowadays. For intensive graphics work, some beefy machine would be recommended.

But still, this fault is caused by a driver, since the programme works fine when it is installed, and only has a problem after a restart.

Btw, the OS is Windows 2000 Professional.

Thanks for any suggestions!

[George_Bilalis@adobeforums.com]

Then, what graphic adapter (aka video) card does this ancient machine use? Maybe the problem is with the card's driver.

rgrds
George

[Jan-Wouter_Stigter@adobeforums.com]

An STB Velocity (ha!) 128 card. Ancient indeed.

[George_Bilalis@adobeforums.com]

So what is the case with the video driver? Is it updated?

George

PS: Looking at their site I see: STB VELOCITY 128 8MB 2x-AGP/NTSC Riva ZX.
This means a 8Mb RAM card that can't support True Color at any reasonable resolution for ID