[pchelpers] Re: win 98 first edition

I recently installed win98SE on an older computer. (the same one ReNa is
working on).

Win98 only offered 16 colors for the video card. This made for LOUSY
pictures.  I looked at the Video card and noted the brand & model #.  I
happened to have a c.d. that came with a different video card of the same
brand (S3).  I looked through the c.d. and found a driver that I hoped would
work. (the c.d. did not cover the exact video card that I had.)  Anyway, the
first driver that I tried worked even though I got a message saying that
this driver was not written specificaly for this hardware.  Now win98 offers
us "32bit true color".

Probably, some of you Tech-no-wizards scoff at the "fly by the seat of your
pants" approach, but it worked this time.
However, YOU BETTER KNOW THE LOCATION OF YOUR OLD DRIVER BEFORE YOU TRY A
NEW DRIVER just in case it does not work.

Smiles, J. Setcer

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Ford" <john.ford1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:44 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: win 98 first edition


>
> Jackie,
>
> Many times when video goes bad with Win 98 it means that you have lost the
> video driver for plug and play. While many different video drivers will
> work, make sure that you use the plug and play one this will give you
almost
> unlimited colors and solve the very same problem that I had and had to
fix.
>
> John F
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jackie MacWhirter
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 8:46 AM
> To: PCHELPERS
> Subject: [pchelpers] win 98 first edition
>
>
>
> Hi:
>  My sister has the first edition of win 98 - At first she told me
everything
> was so large on her computer well we got fixed that over the phone -its
> normal -right now  - she has only 256 color; 16 bit color ;and she said
she
> have 24 bit true color-- she did have 32 bit too its not there either --
her
> resolution is 800x 600 she has a 17 in monitor. She said the color isn't
as
> nice as before. .Probably  the driver of  the graphic card is corrupted or
> gone--  she has done not done scandisk and defragmentation, she probably
has
> oodles of tmp files and etc  I told her to do both-  she scan the disk but
> now  she can't use her maintenance wizard it only goes to 10 %--   I can't
> travel to her place right now  I am not well enough I wonder if  you give
me
> some suggestions.  I will have to walk her through this over  the phone
> (shudder)  Last time I was there I had to reinstall her windows-- I was
able
> to save everything fortunately   The grand kids were playing with her
> computer then hehehe!!! .  I was trying to get her to run windows setup
<G>
> I thought that would solve the problems I am also  wondering if her
graphics
> card might be going-- or something else I might have missed.  I would
> appreciate any  help.  Thanks-- Jackie
>
>
>
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