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Unable to save changes in Win98SE display settings
One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply
gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager, driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800 by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels. Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance. |
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You have not loaded the proper video display adapter (video card)
driver--your W98 CD apparently doesn't have the driver. Here's my standard blurb: When the correct screen resolution (screen area) or the right number of colors are not available choices in display properties, settings tab, then it is a good bet you do not have the right driver installed for your display adapter. The display adapter in your PC is either a video card or a display chipset on the motherboard. If you received a CD or floppy disks with drivers along with your PC, see if they contain a display adapter driver and install it using: control panel, system, device manager, display adapter. If you know what display adapter your PC has but you have no disks, use www.google.com to track down the correct driver on the internet. If you do not know what display adapter your PC uses, you can go to a MS-DOS prompt and type: Debug and hit enter. The screen will display a flashing prompt next to a - sign. Type: DC000:35 (DC000:50 may also work) and hit enter. The name and possibly model of your display adapter should appear on the right hand side of the screen. To quit Debug, type Q and hit enter. If Debug is not helpful, you can try this program: Advanced PCI Info, available at: http://www.upsystems.com.ua/support/alexmina/ If all else fails, you will have to remove the computer case. Look at where the monitor plugs into the back of the case and then check that location inside the case. If there is a card there, you obviously have a video card and if not, you have on board graphics. Write down any information displayed on either the card or the chipset on the motherboard. Then use www.google.com to search for the information. Do not include all the data you found in one search message--search on each piece individually. If you include all the information at once, you might not get a hit. I have found that a video card will generally have to be removed in order to see the information. Be careful of static electricity as it can fry components. Before touching anything in the computer case (the cord is unplugged, right?), ground yourself to the case by touching it. Don't work on carpeting since shuffling your feet on it can generate static electricity after you grounded yourself. Remove the one screw that holds the card in place and using a rocking motion (left to right and back), pull the card straight out. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Bonzy" wrote in message ... One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager, driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800 by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels. Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance. |
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Thanx, Ron. The display adapter is a video card that sits in the only AGP
slot on the m/board. This card is an s3 Trio3D/2X card. Unfortunately, I cant locate the driver CDs or floppyies, and I've failed to download the driver from driverguide.com. I'd identified it alright, but when I clicked on the download button, the message I got on the screen was SURF CONTROL. ACCESS DENIED. Harsh eh? What's up? Besides, the pc is now in this nasty business of hanging/freezing; it hanges or freezes so often that it is not possible to go any far in troubleshooting-bad news! However, it never hangs/freezes in Safe Mode, NEVER. What's the fix for this obstacle, Ron. What could be causing it? I look forward to your response. Thanx in advance. "Bonzy" wrote: One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager, driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800 by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels. Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance. |
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http://www.surfcontrol.com/Default.a...=375&mnuid=1.1 Is this software
installed on the PC? Something that is loading in normal mode, but not in safe mode, appears to be causing the hang. I'd start in safe mode by doing a full screen with an up to date anti virus program followed by a spyware hunt. Follow that with clean boot troubleshooting to try to isolate what is causing the hang if it still is doing it. Spyware/scumware/adware are causing numerous system problems. I recommend you download and use the following programs and consider removing everything these programs identify. Be aware that there are frequent updates to these programs and you need to check for them before every use. AdAwa http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ CWShredder: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html (download link near the bottom) Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/ How to Perform Clean-Boot Troubleshooting for Windows 98 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=192926 -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Bonzy" wrote in message ... Thanx, Ron. The display adapter is a video card that sits in the only AGP slot on the m/board. This card is an s3 Trio3D/2X card. Unfortunately, I cant locate the driver CDs or floppyies, and I've failed to download the driver from driverguide.com. I'd identified it alright, but when I clicked on the download button, the message I got on the screen was SURF CONTROL. ACCESS DENIED. Harsh eh? What's up? Besides, the pc is now in this nasty business of hanging/freezing; it hanges or freezes so often that it is not possible to go any far in troubleshooting-bad news! However, it never hangs/freezes in Safe Mode, NEVER. What's the fix for this obstacle, Ron. What could be causing it? I look forward to your response. Thanx in advance. "Bonzy" wrote: One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager, driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800 by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels. Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance. |
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Thanx again Ron, I'm just about to start carrying out your great fixes. One
thing I need to mention to you though. Maybe it will help further.Sometime last week I'd managed to get into device manager and was trying to update all the drivers. Then somewhere in the middle, the screen went black and the ff: error message came up: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. Press any key to continue.. After pressing 2 keys in succession the ff: error message came up: An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted. Change the STACKS setting in your CONFIG.SYS file and try again. I didnt do that but pressed ctrl-alt-del just to restart, but there was no response from the pc. I could only restart using the power button. Does this information on its behavior help any further? Thanx a million in advance. "Bonzy" wrote: One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager, driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800 by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels. Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance. |
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try this ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-suppo...g/win9xe67.exe
It should help. "Bonzy" wrote in message ... One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager, driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800 by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels. Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance. |
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Thanks Thierry, but I've failed to get to this ftp site because when I tried,
the message on the monitor was: SURF CONTROL. ACCESS DENIED. Why do you think the pc said this to me? Thanks. "Thierry Plouchart" wrote: try this ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-suppo...g/win9xe67.exe It should help. "Bonzy" wrote in message ... One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager, driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800 by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels. Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance. |
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Configure "Surf Control" (apparently installed on your system) to allow you
to access exe files. http://www.surfcontrol.com/ PattyL "Bonzy" wrote in message ... Thanks Thierry, but I've failed to get to this ftp site because when I tried, the message on the monitor was: SURF CONTROL. ACCESS DENIED. Why do you think the pc said this to me? Thanks. "Thierry Plouchart" wrote: try this ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-suppo...g/win9xe67.exe It should help. "Bonzy" wrote in message ... One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager, driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800 by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels. Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance. |
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