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In article <896361405snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes
>Further details:
>
>The machine is a Compaq 386/20 with Cyrix 386-486 chip.
>
>I've  had a Western Digital 1MB ISA card work fine in  the  system 
>before, but now find that if I try either a Tseng Labs ET 4000

http://www.tseng.com has an updated driver for an ET4000 which works
fine for me.

> or 
>a  Trident  1MB  or  Trident  512K,  even  MSD  senses  these  as 
>Monochrome  cards. Compaq SETUP also identifies the card  as  Non 
>Compaq,  and  monochrome  display so it looks like  it's  a  BIOS 
>problem. The initial display for the Trident is usually in colour 
>in part - here it's greyscale.

You could try SciTech's Display Doctor from http://www.scitechsoft.com.
Their latest version includes a 'universal video driver' which may work
for you (it didn't with my ET4000).

> 
>
>It's  not the monitor, as during Windows 95 startup, the  initial 
>screen  is the standard blue etc one, but once it gets  into  the 
>desktop it's all greyscale.

Check that Control Panel / Display / Appearance is set to something like
Windows/Default and not a black and white layout.
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