Stephen;
I worked on a year old Dell recently.
it had a Dell resource cd or something similar
under drivers there was a index of the files in that directory.
you may need to go to www.dell.com and look up your hardware by serial #.
they also should have your drivers on the website.
You can take off the cover if you're comfortable with that, and look at the
video card and
see what chipset it has.
Or watch when the computer first boots in dos the first thing on the screen
should
be what display hardware is installed.
The drivers are often "buried" deep on the cd. The one I worked on had a
file
called "install.bat" in the folder for the soundcard I was trying to
install.
That dos batch file pointed to the winnt folder where the actual .inf file
was located.
Probably the driver off the Dell site will be easiest to find.
It's always a good idea before reformatting to write down or print the
hardware list
in device manager.
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| ><> Larry Fisk <><
| Fisk Computers
| Fruitvale, Idaho
From: "suttles stephen"
Subject: [PCBUILD] Dell video drivers
>Well yesterday I decided to format my hard drive and
> reinstall winme and
> > when I did it wasn't detecting my video card. I have
> the cd to
> > reinstall the drivers for it and I did reinstall the
> drivers but
> yet
> > screen is a bit fuzzy, and in my settings for
> display it only loads
> > up 16 colors. Can anyone tell me how I can get it to
> where my video
> > drivers are enabled so I can have a clear display.
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