Only 16 colours after formatting Satellite Pro 430cds

I have an old satellite pro 430cds which i recently formatted re-installing the operating system.
I still have the original toshiba diskette which allowed me to re-install the cd-rom but I am only able to get 16 colours as the display refuses to accept even 256 colours or a higher resolution.
I have tried various things like different drivers, updating the bios and all have proved unsuccesful. The graphics card is a chips and tech supervga card and has the correct drivers but I am now getting to the end of my thether with this.
I would buy a new graphic card but i fear that the same problem would prevail.
Am I missing something obvious and can anyone help me?

Hello Michael
If I am understood you right you have preinstalled your unit with delivered operating system (Win95). Am I right?
It is very strange that problem occurs with Toshiba designed image. In my opinion you can try to check Toshiba download page and install latest display driver.
Usually if the unit doesnt work stabile with Toshiba image first thing that you can expect is hardware malfunction. Sorry but I have no other explanation.

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> I finaly founded specification of Grf.card 5165 at ATI web.
> Maximum output of HDMI is up to 1920x1080.
http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/graphics/ati-mobility-hd-5165/Pages/hd-5165-specs.aspx
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It seems the fan table was changed and renewed in the new BIOS version and therefore the fans run ofttimes.
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Well, usually something like this is necessary to improve decrease the internal temperature while the CPU and GPU are running with full performance.
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2 years ago I got a Satellite Pro A200 as a business notebook and it runs with XP SP2, later with SP3. With 2 GB it shows 2 GB of memory in Windows - and I know it has a Radeon 7500 with 256MB of individual graphic memory, and it has no shared memory.
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> I upgraded it to 4 GB, but Windows shows exactly 3 GB. BIOS shows 4 GB and the ATI system monitor shows 4 GB. I know that 4 GB is not possible in XP 32 bit, only on Windows 2003 R2 32 bit or Vista - but on desktop systems I have seen values between 3.3 and 3.7 GB.
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> hey man please think before you answer.
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> Whats the deal with BIOS? I dont understand!
> If i were to upgrade to windows vista should i update my BIOS before or after upgrading to vista?
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