You're on the right track by searching for the drivers for your particular
hardware. Don't pay attention to labels like VGA or SVGA - they are used
interchangeably. Your video adapter hardware is probably listed on screen
immediately after power-on. You can also use a utility such as Sandra to
identify it, or even open the case and take a look at the video chipset
(assuming it's a motherboard adapter - you can tell from the location of the
monitor connector). You won't find it on the Windows CD as it was probably
not manufactured until after Widows 98 was released.
If you've identified the motherboard properly as BKII630e then the video
chipset is SiS630E (ie, the video chipset and the motherboard chipset are
the same) and the video drivers are at
http://www.amptron.com/asp/driverslist.asp?name=BK630
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"rosenmarsh" wrote in message
om...
This happened after I rigged up my USB printer to a friends computer.
After I had disconnected my printer and set his LPT printer back to
default I noticed the screen had gone black but then went into vga
mode. I assume it was because was still looking for my USB printer,
could not find it and all non-essential drivers are shut down
including SVGA. (I don't know why as I set his printer back to
default but there we are...)
Yesterday I tried to fix the problem. Firstly I uninstalled my
printer software. Then went to display settings and I couldn't move
slider from 480x640
setting. The colours were still set to 16. I went into system/device
manager
and the adapter listed was "Standard PCI Graphics Adaptor (VGA)". I
then tried to reinstall the video drivers via properties/driver/update
driver of display. I put the Windows 98se disk (my friend definitely
has
this OS). There were two choices:
1)"Search for a better driver than the device is using now." When I
followed this Windows just reinstalled the existing file from?to?"
c/windows/inf/monitor.inf. (I am not sure if monitor.inf is the driver
or something that the driver installs - can you tell me).
2)"Display list of all the drivers in a specific location so you can
select driver you want". When I chose this I got 2 choices
----Show compatible hardware. This was empty. And when I pressed "Have
Disk" I just got c/windows /inf/monitor.inf again.
----Show all hardware. This gave a list in left column of driver
makes
and in right of the all the associated drivers. Top of left column
was
"standard display types" and in right there was supervga as well as
xga
and vga. I assume svga is what i want.
I then tried two methods. I chose svga and then "have disk", nothing
much
happened but I restarted computer and the slider and was able to move
slider in display settings to 800x600. However when I tried to apply
changes, nothing happened and restarting computer just took it back to
basic setting. (There was also a windows error message about display
setting not being compatible etc).
I then tried another method. I went back into Update device driver
wizard via system/device manager/display/properties/update driver/show
all hardware. I opened each display driver folder and tried to install
the file from the OS disk. I thought at least one driver would work!
Every time I did it, I got the message "the driver you have chosen was
not written for the hardware on your computer". The driver folders in
the OS drivers/display folder we
trident,stb,smotion,s3,neomagic,matrix,intel,cyrix ,3dfx.
So I don't understand what has happened to the original SVGA driver
and why
the system is not able to accept any of the drivers on the WIN98 SE
CD. CAN
YOU EXPLAIN WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
However I took the details of the computer mainboard model number and
the circuit board. The circuit board is SiS630 and through google I
have found chipsets listed with this name. I assume chipset and
circuit
board is the same thing..? I have also found video chipset with this
name
and a site where I can download it. The system is made by Patriot and
motherboard manufactured by Amptron.
http://www.modem-help.co.uk/mfc/patriot.html#BKII630e. The motherboard
is listed on computer as Patriot PBCX533/1 but at the site it is
listed
as BKII630e MB - I found it through seeing SiS630. So now I am
downloading the driver from www.softwarepatch.com.
However in the manual for the motherboard, the graphics drivers are
listed on the software CD as d:/vga/bk630. I am unclear why they are
listed in VGA folder when machine can support SVGA mode. I have
already spent 3 1/2 hours trying to fix this so want to get it right
as he lives 15 miles away and it becoming a real shlepp!
I look forward to your comments!