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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? |
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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???? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Paul Klinkman" wrote in message news 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? |
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