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Hi Someone...

I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that neither the computer nor the monitor is your bottleneck here...

Suggest you try another video card; one with more on-board memory.

Take care.

Ken

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What type of video card is in it? You'll have to install the correct driver for that, if you can't find one for the specific card you should be able to find one for the chip it uses.

Definitly *not* the monitor, VGA monitors are analog, they'll display anything the computer sends them.

If the monitor is also ~1996, then it's way too new to be limited to 16 colors, regardless of resolution. But at 640x480 resolution, standard VGA adapters are, so see if the video processor chip supports better.

has much useful information on vintage hardware, and driver software isn't that hard to find.

Run a program called everest home, it will tell you exactly which chips are inside and you will then be able to find a suitable driver. Google for everest home, it's free. Yours

Bart Bervoets

Get a different video card, something that did not come with at best a 75-

100 MHz pentium. (although even they should handle what you want to do with proper drivers)

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Are you using the correct driver (MDF) for the monitor?

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Don't use Windows drivers, us the ones from the manufacturer of the video card chipset.

Tom

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:50:21 -0400, "someone2" put finger to keyboard and composed:

As others have said, you need to install a different video driver. You can identify the graphics chipset by looking at the card. Otherwise, including those cases where the graphics is integrated into the motherboard, you can watch the POST screen for the info just prior to boot. Or you can query the BIOS using DOS Debug, as follows:

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I appreciate all the informative input.

I will work on the video problem this week.

someone2

It's just a matter of determining what make and model of video card it has, and then installing the correct drivers for that card. You can get the Win98 driver for that car at the video card maker's web site.

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And if you can't find the driver I probably have a few crappy old cards with win9x drivers lying around, I could send one for the cost of postage.

There is your problem, you installed windows on it.

a computer that old is probably not suited for 98. maybe thats why it had 95 on it. if you want to get better use of the computer.. boot it up to win 98, douse it in gasoline and then throw a match on it. that will fix everything

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95 98,

everything

95 and 98 have similar hardware requirements, if it's at least a P100 with 16 MB then either should be fine, not that either is a particularly great OS but you don't have a lot of options that will be useful to the average person.