[TechAssist] Re: Computer Display Driver Question
- From: "Richard \"Wolfe\" Strickland, MCSE, MCP+I, MCP, CompTIA A+" <wolfe-mcse@xxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 15:56:08 -0500
Howdy...
The first thing to do is check to see which driver is loaded for your video
card in the Control Panel Display applet. It seems as though you are using
the Standard VGA driver provided with Windows 98, as opposed to the one for
your video card. This in effect would create the problem you are
describing.
In the case you determine it is the video card driver, go to the Adapter
tab, and click on Change. Follow the on-screen instructions to change the
video driver to either the one provided on the Windows 98 CD, or if
unavailable, download it from ATI, and select "Have Disk" to use the new
driver.
Signed,
Wolfe Strickland, MCSE, MCP+I, MCP, A+
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Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 1:12 AM
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Subject: [TechAssist] Computer Display Driver Question
This is my computer that I use for my shop. It is an Acer Aspire 200mhz
Pentium. I replaced the old 4 gig hard drive with a 40 gig. I got
everything working except the display. I am using the same driver as with
the old hard drive
but when I boot it defaults to the 640 x 480 16 bit color. When I try to
change the settings it says there is a problem with the display adapter
or driver. I know
the hardware is ok because if I go back to the old hard drive it works
fine with all the settings. The only thing different about this
installation is that the old hard drive originally had windows 95. I had
upgraded to win 98 and it still worked fine. On the new hard drive I
loaded only win 98. Is there something this display
driver needs from win 95? The display driver is an ATI mach64 on board
type...
Thanks for any help on this.
Peter Blakeman
Blakeman Electronics
Tyler, Tx
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