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Old August 23rd 05, 04:49 PM
Billyboy
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I have just had to reinstall Win 98SE on my Dell laptop Latitude CPi A, my
display is now stuck on 16 colours and 640x480 and only fills about half the
available screen area,I think it is to do with the drivers for the screen but
am not sure if this is the case or where to go to get new ones or to check
the type of screen my laptop has, neither do I have the original discs that
came with the laptop, lost on a house move, anyone any clues as to what I
shoul do
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Old August 23rd 05, 05:09 PM
jkb
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I have just had to reinstall Win 98SE on my Dell laptop Latitude CPi A, my
display is now stuck on 16 colours and 640x480 and only fills about half

the
available screen area,I think it is to do with the drivers for the screen

but
am not sure if this is the case or where to go to get new ones or to check
the type of screen my laptop has, neither do I have the original discs

that
came with the laptop, lost on a house move, anyone any clues as to what I
shoul do


That's a driver issue. You need to install the drivers for the video card.


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Old August 23rd 05, 05:19 PM
Gary S. Terhune
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The problem isn't likely the monitor, it's the video. I know that sounds
goofy when you see it written down, but the "video" circuitry isn't part of
the monitor, it's part of the motherboard.

You'll want to review the list of drivers, etc., he
http://support.dell.com/support/down...os=W98&osl=EN#

(If that link gives problem, use http://tinyurl.com/b7eqg)

Video drivers are way down at the bottom. One, the "NeoMagic NM2200", is the
video driver set you want first, the other one, called "Margi Magic DVD" is
to support DVD movie playback.

There are, of course, lots of other drivers at that page that should
interest you. As for determining exactly what hardware you have, try Everest
Home Edition from http://www.lavalys.com/

Your biggest immediate problem is to get the video drivers installed. Here's
the direct link to the EXE file you need to run in order to fix that:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/NEOW9806.EXE

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User


"Billyboy" wrote in message
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I have just had to reinstall Win 98SE on my Dell laptop Latitude CPi A, my
display is now stuck on 16 colours and 640x480 and only fills about half
the
available screen area,I think it is to do with the drivers for the screen
but
am not sure if this is the case or where to go to get new ones or to check
the type of screen my laptop has, neither do I have the original discs
that
came with the laptop, lost on a house move, anyone any clues as to what I
shoul do



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Old August 23rd 05, 05:58 PM
Ron Badour
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For my Inspiron laptop, there is a CD entitled: Drivers, Utilities and
Applications ....With all my desktop Dells, I have received a resource CD
which contains various drivers. You have to install the Resource CD and
then open it and search for video display drivers.

If you do not have either CD, check the Dell website for downloadable
drivers for your video card.

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"Billyboy" wrote in message
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I have just had to reinstall Win 98SE on my Dell laptop Latitude CPi A, my
display is now stuck on 16 colours and 640x480 and only fills about half
the
available screen area,I think it is to do with the drivers for the screen
but
am not sure if this is the case or where to go to get new ones or to check
the type of screen my laptop has, neither do I have the original discs
that
came with the laptop, lost on a house move, anyone any clues as to what I
shoul do



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Old August 24th 05, 06:11 PM
Billyboy
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Thank you very much for the advice, I followed it and it works, my screen is
back to normal with Windows!

Billyboy

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

The problem isn't likely the monitor, it's the video. I know that sounds
goofy when you see it written down, but the "video" circuitry isn't part of
the monitor, it's part of the motherboard.

You'll want to review the list of drivers, etc., he
http://support.dell.com/support/down...os=W98&osl=EN#

(If that link gives problem, use http://tinyurl.com/b7eqg)

Video drivers are way down at the bottom. One, the "NeoMagic NM2200", is the
video driver set you want first, the other one, called "Margi Magic DVD" is
to support DVD movie playback.

There are, of course, lots of other drivers at that page that should
interest you. As for determining exactly what hardware you have, try Everest
Home Edition from http://www.lavalys.com/

Your biggest immediate problem is to get the video drivers installed. Here's
the direct link to the EXE file you need to run in order to fix that:
http://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/NEOW9806.EXE

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User


"Billyboy" wrote in message
...
I have just had to reinstall Win 98SE on my Dell laptop Latitude CPi A, my
display is now stuck on 16 colours and 640x480 and only fills about half
the
available screen area,I think it is to do with the drivers for the screen
but
am not sure if this is the case or where to go to get new ones or to check
the type of screen my laptop has, neither do I have the original discs
that
came with the laptop, lost on a house move, anyone any clues as to what I
shoul do




 




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