need help with Windows (FIXED) now the graphic card topic

[BlackMan890]

Hi guys

i just installed windows 98 but i got a proplem:
the best resolution i can get in it is 640 * 480 and 16 col (not 16 bit)
does anyone know how i can get 1024 * 768 in 32 bit col?

i already tried searching google but didn't find anything

PS
if this thread will get locked can you pm me

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i am not following you.. what do you mean?

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it worked finally but not by me but with the help of the forums
i decided to change the topic name into The Graphic Card Topic

[Ashen]

Obvious things first - have you re-installed your video card drivers?
That's what used to happen to me every two weeks time I had to reinstall Win98.

[unlogged Isegrim]

Win 98 brings very few drivers with it. That means you'll have to install Video- (and most likely Sound-) Card drivers.
Those can usually be found on the other CDs that came with your computer. If you have no other CDs then perform the following steps:
-Open your computer case (hoping it's a desktop)
-Find graphics card
-look for manufacturer ID and serial number (you may have to remove it from the computer)
-note the dates
-screw your machine back together
-google for your video card manufacturer
-look for your video card
-get driver

[BlackMan890]

wow thanks i will start on the right away but there is a proplem, i have 3 graphic cards and i don't know who is the best

[Barbarian]

wow thanks i will start on the right away but there is a proplem, i have 3 graphic cards and i don't know who is the best

What is the model and manufacturer of your graphics card? Perhaps we can help you find the right drivers to install.

[BlackMan890]

humm, good idea
(in case you are wondering why i have so many graphic cards its because i have many brotheres and they have all bought new PC so these graphic cards are (i think) old, some are really old but some actually have some 3D effect in it)

1.  Diamond Stealt 3D 2000

2.  this is what i saw on it:
MVGA-CLM30P
          CLM40P

3.  i don't know what this one has caue i didn't see anything on it, i did take a picture if you are  able to see the manufacture on it:
Front view (458 kb)
Back view (448 bk)

i think thats all, i did get one new graphic card from my brother but it turned out it was broken

PS
i feel so lazy and helpless making everyone do the hard work for me

[Ashen]

OK, I have far too much time on my hands....

Some intensive Google-ing gets me:

1. Diamond Stealth 3D
www.diamondmm.com, official site of the company that made it. Requires free registration.
OR, try: https://ranger.s3graphics.com/ (username & password are "archive")

2.Is probably a Prolink, but I couldn't find support for it. Also, I think 640x480 is the best it can do

3. Looks like an AOpen PA45 VGA card
Driver download from: http://english.aopen.com.tw/Products/VGA/pa45.htm

Of the 3, I'd favour No. 1, if you can get the driver, but that's just me.

[Ishmael]

Did you try connecting the monitor to all of them in turns? It might be that like two of them have drives that support higher resolutions, the other one doesn't.

I remember having a quite a load of display drivers on my 98 machine, not sure if they all came from the CD though... But those card models sound weird...

[BlackMan890]

wow thanks guys, i finally got my computer to work
now all i need is to make the internet

aniway found a very interesting graphic card while looking at some boxes:
Front view (443 kb)

i think it is a graphic card that was used in the movie Superman 3 (i think)
but i still am not sure for what computer this is for

[Gilbert]

As suggested from the picture taken, it's just an ordinary graphic card using the Cirus Logic 5428 chipset, I remembered one of mine using the CL5426 (or whatever) in the past.
It's probably just a PC ISA card, nothing special.

[modgeulator]

now all i need is to make the internet

:o

That sounds like quite an ambitious project.
Good luck.

[BOYD1981]

it'll never catch on!

[BlackMan890]

sorry i ment to get the internet working
anyway i finally got my computer to work
(yet there always has to be some proplem)
but the proplem is that my screen doesnt support 1024 x 768
The screen, not the graphic card :
anyway thanks for the help