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Old March 9th 05, 02:22 AM
Walter Deodiaus
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I have WinME with a EliteGroup ECS K7VMM+ motherboard
with S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR graphics chips.
When I changed my hard drives around, it seems as if the graphics drivers
revert to the default settings, giving me 256 colors and 640x480
resoluition.
I reset my settings to 16 million colors and 1024 x 768, but doing so causes
my computer to not display the image on my monitor (ViewSonic 770).
This was working fine before, but not anymore, even after configuring
everything back to the original configuration. I think the problem is with
the plug-n-play config.
Any suggestions.


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Old March 9th 05, 04:44 PM
Walter Deodiaus
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Ok, I found the problem and found that I lied before.
I also installed another 512MB PC2700 DDR (in addition to the 512MB 3200 DDR
already installed).
Doing that drove my video synch rate out of wack, and could be seen on boot
up!
When I removed the newly installed second RAM card, my video card worked
again.
Any suggestions on how to have my 1GB RAM and use it too?
I tried updating the video drivers www.s3graphics.com, but that did not do
it. The next update listed is for WinXP, and does not install under ME.

"Walter Deodiaus" wrote in message
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I have WinME with a EliteGroup ECS K7VMM+ motherboard
with S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR graphics chips.
When I changed my hard drives around, it seems as if the graphics drivers
revert to the default settings, giving me 256 colors and 640x480
resoluition.
I reset my settings to 16 million colors and 1024 x 768, but doing so

causes
my computer to not display the image on my monitor (ViewSonic 770).
This was working fine before, but not anymore, even after configuring
everything back to the original configuration. I think the problem is

with
the plug-n-play config.
Any suggestions.




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Old March 9th 05, 05:12 PM
Mike M
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Whilst Win9x operating system such as Win Me can handle up to 2GB of RAM
(although often there are problems with greater than 1GB) it is essential
to limit the virtual cache to no more than 512MB since if you allow the
cache to exceed 512MB this will mean that you run out of upper memory
addresses and get Out of Memory errors. Note that this will still mean
that all memory is available to applications but is simply limiting the
amount used as virtual cache memory See KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory"
Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912).

See also:
MS KB 296773 - "Computer May Not Hibernate with More Than 192 MB of
Memory" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=296773). This makes reference
to an updated file vmm.vxd. Contact Microsoft, explain the problem, and
mention 296773 and you should be given details of how to obtain the patch
and the password of the day. Note that there should be no support charge
for this call other than for any telecom charges incurred in ringing
Microsoft.

MS KB 304943 - "Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of
RAM" (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=304943).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Walter Deodiaus wrote:

Ok, I found the problem and found that I lied before.
I also installed another 512MB PC2700 DDR (in addition to the 512MB
3200 DDR already installed).
Doing that drove my video synch rate out of wack, and could be seen
on boot up!
When I removed the newly installed second RAM card, my video card
worked again.
Any suggestions on how to have my 1GB RAM and use it too?
I tried updating the video drivers
www.s3graphics.com, but that did
not do it. The next update listed is for WinXP, and does not install
under ME.


 




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