Thank you for your suggestions. The monitor is being recognized correctly
as it shows as Compaq FS7600 in both device manager and under display in
settings. It shows a generic graphic controller as pointed out by David
Gillette and Venkat Viswanathan.
Also, Tracy suggested downloading Everest Home. The report says we have
Intel Pentium II, 350 MHz, IBM 686229U, BIOS type=IBM (02/08/99) plus 37 1/2
more pages of Greek. The problems & suggestions I've found so far on the
printout are: AGP is disabled. This may cause performance penalty. AGP
aperture size is more than 1/2 of the memory size. This may cause
performance penalty. (AGP Version=1.00; AGP Status=disabled; AGP Device=IBM
Integrated S3 Trio3D; AGP Aperture Size=64 MB; Supported AGP Speeds=1x, 2x;
Fast-Write=not supported and Side Band Addressing=Supported, Disabled). It
also says System & Video BIOS are more than 2 years old and asks if we are
looking for an upgrade.
Thank you for any suggestions you may have.
Karen Halder
PS - What is aperture?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Venkat Viswanathan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:56 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] monitor problem
> on march 11/2005 Louis Halder wrote
> "Thank you for responding to my request for help! Can you explain how to
> download a fresh Windows98 driver for this card? Also, how can I tell if
an
> S3 "Trio 3D" video card is in our machine? When I go to the settings info
> all it says is Standard PCI Graphics Adapter VGA. This all types out like
> English but certainly reads like Greek to me!"
>
> you have already learnt some greek(!) becuse you have gone into "start/
settings/control panel/display/settings" to get "std.PCI graphics adapter
vga ".
>
> only because of this and your request for suggestions for "computers for
dummies" i am suggesting the following procedure.
>
> (1)right click on the computer icon on your desk top and from the drop
down menu left click on properties. this wil
> l bring up a window with 4 headings
> general, device manager, hardware profiles, performance.
>
> (2) in the general tab (which will be opened) you will find the operating
system, registered to, computer details listed
>
> (3)now left click "device manager". yow will find a lot of things listed
>
> (4)click on the + sign by the side of "monitor". this should show "compaq
FS7600" or at least "FS 7600" which is your monitor model.
>
> if this is listed it means your monitor has been correctly recognised.
>
> now close, or ok, or cancel this window
>
> (5) now go to start/settings/control panel and double click on the
"display icon". you should find at the bottom of the big computer icon in
this window:
> display: FS 7600 ON -----------------graphics controller. i have put -----
> because from your first post it is not clear whether you have an on board
video in your mother board or a separate vid
> eo card. i have win 98 se as operating system, on board video on asus
mother board with intel chipset and samsung monitor model "syncmaster" so
my readings for display are " syncmaster on intel[r]82845g/gc/ge/pe/gv
graphics controller.(i hope this is not too much greek!)
>
> if after step (4) above you find that your monitor is not recognised
corrctly then you may have to go through the procedure of "uninstalling/ re
installing hardware (monitor) and this can be done ONLY if you have the
compaq installation disk for your monitor.
> if on the other hand you do not have the correct graphics controller and
get a list showing generic graphic controller( as pointed out by David
Gillette)
> then you have to give some more details about your mother board, model no,
etc
> so that someone from the list can guide you further.
>
> NOTE: pl go through the above procedure only if you are comfortable but if
not see if you can get a friend who can help
> you sort of on the spot
>
> hope this will be of some help and have a nice day. venkat viswanathan
>
> p.s. if you have to go through the process of reinstalling the monitor,
once you remove it from device manager and reboot windows will automatically
detect the monitor and ask you for the drivers or will load them from memory
if they are there. if you are asked for the drivers you may need your
windsows 98 cd.
>
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