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| 71325 | 2002-08-15 20:52:00 | 200mz 32mb ram 56k rockwell ricoh cd r r/w Sound card, serial card, printer card. Phillips 105s monitor (2nd moniter IBM svga) data from Video card--> s3virge on board chip 86cs25 Diamong multimedia systems 1996 PC runs win 98 2.1 gig HD with either moniter win 98 displays following, \widows\ system\ moniter\s3virge pci (325) files used s3v.drv s3.vxd. these 2 are in system dir. *vdd *vflatd ? unable to find? When I fit 545mb hard drive loaded with 3.11, msoffice into HDrive cradle, setup HD HCS it is found by bios, starts to load up OK windows 3.11 splash screen is displayed, appears to be loading 5secs approx then ( error occured while trying initialise the video adapter hit any key to continue) this returns to C prompt. DIR will display normal dos dir information Have tried HD win 311 on another older 486 PC and runs OK No (!) markes alongside any devices in control panel in win 98 have checked s3virge site and svirge driver supports my 86c325 chip No video drivers being loaded in autoexec or config at boot up Have removed video card and replaced Renamed existing s3virge.drv and copied to system dir a new one from s3virge site Have searched F1 and computing.net site’s Any Ideas |
Advocar (1098) | ||
| 71326 | 2002-08-15 21:08:00 | What you could try is when you get the C:\> prompt change directory to Windows and type setup. You can then check and if neccessary change the display to VGA, reboot and see if it will run then. Else if it is already VGA, change to the win3.1 drivers for your video adapter, for which probably you will need the disk. If you dont have the win3.1 drivers, have a look on the Driverguide site. http://www.driverguide.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 71327 | 2002-08-16 04:31:00 | It's probably confused by modern video systems. Having two might not help, too. W3.11 knows about SVGA or VGA. I don't know how well it handles PCI bus, (or if it can handle PCI). You haven't tried the Microsoft phone help line? :D :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 71328 | 2002-08-16 05:38:00 | Win3.1 shouldnt worry about the bus Graham, after posting above I dug out an old drive with win3.1 installed and plugged it my Duron with AGP video card, worked fine after changing the existing video adapter (ET4000) to VGA, went very fast too, even though only mode 0. It's most likely that there is an adapter installed to suit the video card in the 486 mentioned. A wrong adapter will definitely prevent windows booting. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 71329 | 2002-08-16 09:55:00 | I sent a reply but it hasnt worked so far Did as you suggested Terry SPOT ON Ran on VGA with win drivers and also SVGA 800*600*16 colors. 1024 or 256 colors got error message again Thanks very much |
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