Windows 7 Aero problem with Colour Depth

Andybtsn · 1 Apr 2011 at 18:21

Hi Guys,

I bought a HP 62 Laptop with an ATI Radeon HD 4200 series Graphics card. Just going into Screen Resolution settings and Aero transparency settings appeared disabled so I ran the troubleshooting finder and the following appears to be the problem:

How do you change your colour depth? I've never seen this issue before so not sure where the problem lies, if it means if I'm running in 32bit mode, I am...

Any ideas?

Andybtsn · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:31

That's the thing...it is, I have the options of 32 or 16 and it's 32. Bizarre..

Andybtsn · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:39

marc2003 said:
do you have proper ati drivers installed rather than relying what's built into windows?

Yeah, downloaded the latest drivers this evening to replace the ones Windows automatically assigns.

Andybtsn · 1 Apr 2011 at 23:57

Yeah it's running. This is really annoying me!

Andybtsn · 2 Apr 2011 at 00:10

Mattus said:
Last thing I can think of: do you have LogMeIn installed, or any other software which can mirror the screen? Those can cause Aero problems if they install virtual display drivers. Go into device manager and see if you have any additional display drivers installed.

Ah, you're genious mate, I have Air Display installed for my iPad. Disabled this and it has rectified things. Shame though as I want it enabled

I guess it's what is more important...