On 11 Dec 98 at 23:10, Cuauhtemoc F. Ramirez A wrote:

>     I have an old 486 with a CGA video card and monitor. I want to
> install windows 3.1 (or 3.11) in it. Is it possible?

  No.  It *might* be possible to run 3.1 with an EGA, but even that
is in doubt.
  Windows defaults to a 16-colour graphics mode, and the only
16-colour modes on the CGA are text modes.  A few old games
synthesized a 16-colour low-res (160x100, I think I recall) mode, but
I don't think there was ever a Windows driver to support it.

> I have tried, but the setup program recognizes the video as
> Olivetti or monocromatic, and then when windows is loading, the
> computer freeze.

  Windows is trying to load the driver for some proprietary video
implementation that Olivetti once sold -- might have been a card, but
I think they built in the video on some of their machines.  Anyway,
that's not what you have, so the driver doesn't work.

> Any ideas? TIA

  Basically, you need to get a VGA card.  You *might* still be able
to find one in ISA slot type, but even VLB have gotten rare, and most
now are PCI or AGP.  If it's important to you to run Windows, you may
need to upgrade the motherboard, and 486 motherboards aren't so
common, either.  Maybe this isn't the machine you should be trying to
run Windows on....

David G

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