Shoutbox

Alright everyone, I need some help. My brother has a windows 98 petium one computer and he is having troubles with his video card...because of that I see horribly on screen....I need someone to help me get it back to 16 bit or 256 colour...


Config:

    code:3Dfx (vodoo2) video card

    Petium 1
    Windows 98 second edition.

    Horribly colour on screen

    Current resolution: 600 by 480...resolution nedded: 600 by 800




The total is possible because we had it like this before untill windows 98  second edition was installed over the original windows 98

Help me out please!

EDIT: screenshot here: http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ugly6jt.png

are the drivers properly installed?

Is it possible to set 800x600 resolution and 16bit colors or you cannot change these settings at all? If so, can you do it in Safe Mode? Either way, I advise to go to safe mode and change settings there.

Was the screen okay before or has it been like this all the time? Anyway, try newest drivers and if they still don't work...is it 2 MB video card? Also the monitor could be old enough to not work with your desired settings.

By the way...since when is possible to translate Windows 98, like it is on that screenshot?

You can try the "Unofficial SP2" edition for Windows 98
Look Here

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Features of 2.0.1:
* 100+ updates and hotfixes (Detailed list will be prepared soon).
* Solves 512 MB of RAM problem.
* 256-color tray icons.
* Better Notepad: MetaPad 3.5 (Optional).
* Optimized swap file usage (Optional).
* Better WDM and USB support.
* Adaptec ASPI 4.60.1021 drivers (Optional).
* Windows Scripting Host 5.6.
* DCOM98 1.3.
* OLE Automation Libraries 2.40.4522.
* Dial-Up Networking 1.4.
* Microsoft Installer 2.0.
* MDGx's HTML Help Update.
* TweakUI (Optional).
* Command Prompt Here (Optional).
* New Animated Boot Logo (Optional).
* Microsoft Layer for Unicode.
* Visual Basic 5.0 SP2 runtime library.
* Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 runtime library.
* Visual C++ 6.0 SP6 runtime libraries.
* Updates JET 3.5 files to JET 3.5 SP3.
* Supports 98lite 4.7.
* Windows 2000/ME desktop icons.
* Windows 2000 color scheme (Optional).
* Supports custom "Program Files" directory.
* Shows attributes column in details view on the Windows Explorer.
* Semi-slipstreaming support.
* Some tweaks (Optional).

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On the same page are links for other languages (Like French)

Good luck and I hope this will solve your problem

By the way..
You might want to check the drivers for your Videocard and... yes and... your Monitor.. If your monitor is set to "Default Monitor" its possible that's the problem

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Originally posted by rix
Was the screen okay before or has it been like this all the time?

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Originally posted by lou_habs
The total is possible because we had it like this before untill windows 98  second edition was installed over the original windows 98

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Originally posted by MR_5_MR
are the drivers properly installed?

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Yes

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Originally posted by rix
By the way...since when is possible to translate Windows 98, like it is on that screenshot?

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That is an original...its French...not translated....

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Originally posted by Sypher
You can try the "Unofficial SP2" edition for Windows 98
Look Here

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I will check it out....

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Originally posted by Sypher
By the way..
You might want to check the drivers for your Videocard

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Unfourtunately the people who made and sold the video card [3dfx company] went bankrupt, sold their Things to nvidia...and nvidia doesnt want anything to do with their past hardware so I cant update it...only way I was able to find [that didnt work] was this way:

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Originally posted by rix
newest drivers

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and the reason it didnt work is because it isint from the company....

It's got to be a problem with your drivers, try updating your computer.  http://update.microsoft.com

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Originally posted by Brian
It's got to be a problem with your drivers, try updating your computer.  http://update.microsoft.com

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tried