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| Thread ID: 31827 | 2003-04-02 02:31:00 | display settings....?? | Johhny Cat (3510) | Press F1 |
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| 132777 | 2003-04-02 11:31:00 | As far as i know microsoft do not make video cards but I stand to be corrected . Usually it is called Standard PCI Graphics card when the operating system can't identify the video card used. EG:It would be hard for win98 to identfiy & provide a driver for a video card that was made after the operating system was released. you will probably have to take the cover off & identify the card manually,It should have a name on the chipset. EG: Trident 9440 I will assume that your PC has a PCI card & not an onboard video? Cheers Steve Post again if you need more help as this form is open 24/7 when the server doesn't crash :D |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 132778 | 2003-04-02 11:33:00 | The microsoft video that your looking at is infact a default driver for windows. It is used so that at least you get a picture if the correct drivers are not loaded. Therefore, it is impossible to find it at microsoft. Somehow, you have to find out what video card you are using. It may require you to remove the side cover and (using a torch) find out if you use a separate video card or "onboard" video. If you note where your monitor lead is plugged into the PC socket, if inside PC the socket is on a card that stands off the main board (biggest one) then it is a separate card. If the socket sits on the main board, then it is onboard. Note down any numbers/letters from either and report back. If onboard, usually the numbers/letters are between the rows of sockets that cards plug into. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 132779 | 2003-04-02 13:00:00 | Have you checked whether you were given a cd with drivers for your video card when you bought your computer? It took me a while to catch on, when I had the same trouble as you after formatting the HDD Regards, Antonia |
Antonia (730) | ||
| 132780 | 2003-04-02 13:34:00 | I am one satisfied customer. Steven and Pheonix, you were both right on the money. Like many other people with this problem, I was under the misconception that the 'Standard PCI Accelerator' was in fact the make and model of the video card. As you point out this is a generic term used by windows to descirbe a card that it does not recognise. As soon as I went beyond this term and found out that my card was a "Trident Blade 3P" card (which luckily I found on the original computer sales sheet rather than going inside the terminal) I was easily able to download a driver from Trident. The result......a colour and precision on my monitor that I never noticed before! Having visited what seems like a 1000 sites today trying to deal with this I can tell you that this simple bit of information you gave was worth its weight in gold. Many thanks once again Johnny |
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