G'way CS14 Monitor Forced to VGA?

[Waltah]

Yep, the Acer PII-333 machine we picked up when the stepdaughter -- oh, nevermind -- has migrated from the AT/ATX hardware topic over to software. I guess that's progress ...

Here's the deal. When I got the power supply fixed, the machine came right up, I tested everything but the modem and it all seemed okay -- system was Win98se, and no, I didn't read any of the emails that lead to -- oh, right, we're not talking about that. ANYHOW, my Gateway CrystalScan 14 worked fine. I formatted the hard drive, installed Win95b (after the usual mishaps), lots of stuff works but the monitor is now a generic VGA device, 16 colors,low resolution and all. UGGG-LY. And I can't convince Win that it ought to do better; every time I get anything to change and restart Win, I get complaints and a fast trip to the DISPLAY screen to change it. Oh, I have this same monitor with this same Win95b system on another machine (a NoName 486-166 machine) and it works fine there. It also works fine on a G'way PII-350 with Win98se.

Any ideas?

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Walt

[mjc]

Well it looks like Win95b does not have a compatable video driver for the video card (but 98se does....) so you will need to find the video that is in the macjhine and do a search for the correct drivers....


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mjc
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[Waltah]

Thank you MJC! It took only a few minutes for that to sink in ... then I headed for the ACER site looking for video drivers. That fixed the problem and wow! -- what beautiful color.

While I was there I downloaded all the other drivers I could find 'cus the built-in modem also does not work. However, no luck with other drivers -- I'll post that story under 'ACER DRIVERS?'

Thanks again ... They promoted me to apprentice before I was ready.


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Walt