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no color in windows 3.1

a friend of mine bought 3 ibm compters and installed
windows 3.1 in each. One of then show color in dos programs but not color in windows 3.1


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question how can the video card be bad when the dos programs shows color
and when in the window 3.1 there is no color???

windows 3.1 is in a differnt resolution mode than DOS. It may just be in that mode that the card is failing.
I have seen this before..Trident cards are known for this.
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ok understand thank a bunch

have a happy new year
tom
You too!
What was it? A bad video card?

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have not checked yet. will do it this week
tom