Roy, I'd go along with Tom's suggestion if you can and use W98.

However, there is a method which might reveal the card's identity - try
this:

Go to a DOS box.
Type debug, enter.
Type dc000:0010 enter
Type d enter several more times

Details of the card, bios and chipset will appear in successive fragments at
right.

Type q, enter to quit debug, then type exit, enter, to quit the DOS box.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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From: "Tom Turak" Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Video Card Problems


> ATI Rage II drivers should work.  There are a lot of reasons why win95
won't
> load the display driver.  Since win95 is a witch's brew of 16 bit and 32
bit
> code, sometimes a problem using 32 bit code prevents enhanced performance
> features from loading.  That would mean you have a deeper problem than
just
> the driver.
>
> You don't say how you loaded the driver.  Some cards were particular about
> how the driver was installed especially if the plug and play was less than
> perfect.  You can try loading it through device manager, or deleting the
> video entry in device manager and running the 'add hardware' wizard.  If
you
> had the STD cd, it may have had a setup.exe routine.
>
> One thing I strongly suggest is testing the system with a win98 install.
> Win98 should detect and load an acceptable driver for your card
> automatically from its own driver library on the cd.  If this works, at
> least the card has been certified as being in working order.  It also gets
> around the problem of finding STD.
>
> I run dos games on win98 systems.  If you don't have any sound problems,
> then you should stick with win98 for this system.  Sound drivers could be
> the only issue under win98 for your dos games.
>
> Tom Turak
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlsideband [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:50 AM
>
> Hello,
> I have a few questions hopefully someone on the list can answer.
> I recently bought a IBM Aptive 200 Mhz MMX, Model 2159 S90 computer from
> someone (I wanted a retro XMAS...lol). ......
> Windows 95 booted up fine, everything
> was back to normal except the Video Card. I could not get anything other
> than standard VGA 16 colors. Went on the net and researched the Card that
> was orginally installed per IBM,  an ATI Rage II. Downloaded the drivers
and
> installed them. No change. Downloaded Belarc Advisor to try to identify
the
> card, it stated a ATI Rage II was installed. Still standard VGA. When I
> pulled the Video Card it is a STD Systems, Inc. card made in 1998.( My new
> troubleshooting rule: Know what you're working with first, it might save
an
> extra days work ). This computer was made in 1996 so a pervious owner must
> have installed a new card.
> Now what I know about Video Cards wouldn't fill a thimble. How do I
identify
> this card to find what drivers to use

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