Display settings stuck on 4 bit to an absolute minimum resolution

Hello, I have an old Packard Bell iMedia PC running Windows XP Media Center edition. About a year ago I started having display problems, the monitor would go black all of a sudden and then turn it on again. This started happening more frequently until I was forced to connect in safe mode, recover all my vital files, and then reinstall windows. This did not help. After reinstalling the computer developed a new problem, he wouldn't be able to start with the display to 4 bits at a resolution of 640 and nothing I could do would change. At this stage one kindly gave me his old copy of WIndows XP Professional SP3 as there has been migration to Windows 7 and I used that to repartition my hard drive and reinstall windows. After installation, I found my computer worked perfectly once again, until I restarted - it got stuck at absolute minimum resolution again.

Since I replaced the hard drive with a Seagate 500 GB, once more it worked perfectly until I restarted where it got stuck at least once. I went into the settings menu to display and use the Troubleshoot utility, he told me to open the Advanced menu and click the monitor tab, but I could not assess the preferences.
Can anyone help? My computer looks like, it is blocked in safe mode, even if it's not!

Thank you for your response.

I don't know that 'basevideo"checkbox is not checked.

And I found that there is 3 GB.
I have test without / 3 GB, it's OK now.

Solved.

My display driver is:
http://downloadmirror.Intel.com/18774/A08/winxp_14374.exe

Thanks again.

Ken

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