Why can't I get more than 16 colors in Windows Millenium Edition?

If it was on hardware I’d say that’s it, check the virtual machine’sa settings for graphics.

Also what are you doing with ME? lol

What is it saying in Parallels when you go to Virtual Machine -> Configure -> Hardware -> Video?

ME… the second most problematic version of Windows behind Vista…

I am not entirely sure how your particular combination handles hardware that is over a decade newer than it is, but if I had to guess, I would say that ME does not recognize your GPU and is thus loading a default graphics driver. For Windows, that generally means 16-color 640×480 plain-vanilla, old-school VGA.

Under video the options are:
Video Memory [range from 2 MB to 1 GB]
A check box for:
Enable 3D acceleration
Enable vertical synchronization

So, Jerv, does that mean that I’m probably gonna be stuck with it?

Well, you might be able to find a driver….

What year/model MB pro is it? Unless you already know what the GPU in it is, I need that to find out. There is a non-zero chance that we might be able to BS WinME into talking to your GPU.

I just checked and Parallels does have a Windows Me option. My hunch is that the upgrade to Me hosed you. You would probably be fine if you could just install ME.

Have you ran Windows Update yet? Maybe that could find the generic VGA driver that might work.

Hey, thanks you guys!
Jerv, My MBP is late 2009.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,4
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz

About the graphics:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCI
VRAM (Total): 256 MB

Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1280×800
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

Is this the info you needed?

JohnP,
The installation disc for ME is an upgrade version.
I’ll try the Win Update…

Doesn’t seem like I can get online within ME using IE or the Win Update shortcut. Tried the Connection Wizard to no avail. The Parallels devices says it’s connected but I don’t know how to configure it to have ME connected. There are options….
shared network
default adapter
ethernet
airport
p2po
vnic0
vnic1
Host-Only network

I’ve tried a few of them but w/o success. ?????

I think I got online….
Now to find the update….

GeForce 9800M…. let me see what I can find when I get home.

Well, the only thing I found so far was a WinXP driver from the nVidia website but WinME does not appear to be supported. Many (but not all) WinXP drivers work with Win2k/WinME, so it’s worth a try though.

I went to VMWare Fusion for Mac & everything works perfectly.