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Date: | Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:21:26 -0500 |
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I have come to the conclusion that I must have
missed something when it comes to Video cards.
A gentleman brought me his computer today, a no
brand (possibly custom built) early Pentium
computer with no manuals or documentation.
Windows 95
Amibios 1992
Socket 5
4 ISA slots
3 PCI slots
8 MB ram
He could only get 16 colors with his present
video card, and wanted one that he could get more
colors with. I thought this was going to be easy.
First I put in a S3 Trio64V2 that I had (I'm
moving up in the world, I had one whole video card
in stock *grin*) Windows detected it, but froze
every time it tried to install the drivers. I
played around with different PCI slots, and trying
to load the standard VGA drivers, but the results
were always the same.
Then I took a Cirus logic card out of a computer
my kids use, but the computer wouldn't even boot.
I thought this was going to be easy, so what did
I miss. What should I look for to know if I can
put a new video card in an old computer?
Elizabeth Boston
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PCBUILD's List Owner's:
Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]>
Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>
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