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Old June 18th 04, 04:00 AM
Joe727
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Default Display Adapter Problem

Did you have Kazaa installed?

Joe

"Daniel Rose" wrote in message
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Thank you very much, Joe. In the "Select Device" table there were three
choices. I selected "S3 Inc. ViRGE PCI". The other choices were "S3
Inc. ViRGE/DX/GX/ PCI" and "S3 Inc. ViRGE/VX PCI". The display is
working much better now, in 16-bit color at 800x600 resolution.

There are still a few problems.

When the computer starts up, the Desktop wallpaper shows. Then a box
displays reading:

RUNDLL
Error loading C:\WINDOWS\NEWDOT~1.DLL
The system cannot find the file specified.

Then there is another box reading:

Error
Resource file not founded. Program killed.

Near this point the screen goes dark for about 15 seconds. After that
everything seems OK.

Would there be anything else I can try? When my computer was first set
up under Windows 95, it had drivers for Number Nine. Windows 98 has
drivers for that.

Thanks again,
Daniel

Joe727 wrote:

The drivers for your S3 Virge PCI 325 video card can be found he

http://ranger.s3graphics.com/swlib/325drv/

W9531201.zip 244k 1999 May 13 Binary- MS Cert.Win 95
v.4.03.00.2111-3.12.01-PR

They are the latest and last drivers available from S3.

Create a folder on your desktop called Video Drivers.

Download the video drivers to it. Right click and extract the files to
the
*same folder*, or extract it using one of the free zip utilities from the
PC
World Magazine website:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,6531,00.asp

**If you already have the drivers extracted in a folder you can find,
then
start here.**

Since the drivers do not have a self-installer so you will have to follow
these installation instructions for Example 2 or Example 3:

DRIVER INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

Click Start, then Settings, then Control Panel.

Start the "Display" applet program.

Select the "Settings" page, push the "Change Display Type" button.

Push the "Change" button in the "Adapter Type" area.

Push the "Have Disk" button and press "OK".

Specify the path to the new driver and press the ENTER
key:

Example 2: Type in the name of the directory where you copied
the drivers, either on your local hard drive or
on a network share.
(***This will be the Video Drivers folder you
created
on your Desktop***)

Example 3: If you're not sure exactly where the drivers are,
choose the "Browse..." button are find them.
(***This will be the Video Drivers folder you
created
on your Desktop***)

The "Select Device" dialog box will appear. Select the adapter that
corresponds to the one you installed in your machine and click OK.

Windows 95 (or Windows 98) will copy the display drivers to the
proper
directories
on your system.

Continue choosing Close until asked to restart your machine from
the
"Systems Settings Change" dialog box.

After the system has restarted, you can go back into the Display
applet and select alternate screen resolutions and color depths.

Make sure you *temporarily* disable your anti-virus program since it can
interfere with the video drivers installation process. Reboot your
computer.

Joe

"Daniel Rose" wrote in message
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My computer is a Dell Dimension XPS P166s.

Here is the information you requested from Aida:

Display
Video Adapter S3 ViRGE PCI (325)
Video Adapter S3
Video Adapter Standard Display Adapter (VGA)
Video Adapter Super VGA
3D Accelerator S3 ViRGE
Monitor KDS-5251 [NoDB] (0795721757)

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