SVGA suddenly gone
 

It all started with me loading a driver for an HP T45 printer. Didn't work.
I got rid of the printer and manually erased directories referring to the
printer. Then I tried to uninstall-reinstall the printer driver. Now
windows couldn't find the printer driver at all.

At this point I reinstalled windows 98. Now my Win98 partition swore that I
had only 16 color vga available. It couldn't even find my SVGA driver. (I
have a Dell monitor. I then reinst5alled win98 1 more time and no change.
VGA only.

The other partition on my computer is fine, and can see my SVGA monitor
fine. However, win98 limps along in 16 colors. I conclude that my BIOS is
fine on the other side of the disk partition, and so I'm not having a battery
problem. The system is maybe 2 years old. Yes I really need win98 to run an
XP-incompatable $20 scanner. Besides, I love win98 because it boots up fast
and gives my eyes a wonderful headache-preventing 480 x 640 pixel resolution.
Would that other systems were so sane. What's so bad about great ergonomics?

So, what's wrong? Why no SVGA? Ideas? Why no HP printer driver either?

Assuming it is also a Dell computer, get out your Dell Resource CD, check
for the display adapter (video) driver and install it.

Maybe you should have uninstalled the software first and deleted folders
second????

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Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"Paul Klinkman" wrote in message
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It all started with me loading a driver for an HP T45 printer. Didn't
work.
I got rid of the printer and manually erased directories referring to the
printer. Then I tried to uninstall-reinstall the printer driver. Now
windows couldn't find the printer driver at all.

At this point I reinstalled windows 98. Now my Win98 partition swore that
I
had only 16 color vga available. It couldn't even find my SVGA driver.
(I
have a Dell monitor. I then reinst5alled win98 1 more time and no change.
VGA only.

The other partition on my computer is fine, and can see my SVGA monitor
fine. However, win98 limps along in 16 colors. I conclude that my BIOS
is
fine on the other side of the disk partition, and so I'm not having a
battery
problem. The system is maybe 2 years old. Yes I really need win98 to run
an
XP-incompatable $20 scanner. Besides, I love win98 because it boots up
fast
and gives my eyes a wonderful headache-preventing 480 x 640 pixel
resolution.
Would that other systems were so sane. What's so bad about great
ergonomics?

So, what's wrong? Why no SVGA? Ideas? Why no HP printer driver either?