New Monitor in Windows 95

I am playing with an old 486 DX 66mhz for fun but it does not seem to like my newish 17" monitor because plug and play cannot find the monitor to install it and whatever settings I try the screen goes blank when I try to go over 640x480 and I have to wait the 15secs for it to revert. I have tried all the options in Adaptor but again the screen goes blank unmtil I am restored to original settings after 15 secs. In settings I am actually being offered all the res I can get with this monitor in ME/XP/2000. I am sure that when I first used this computer with its original 14" monitor I could get 800x600-just!

It has been so long since I used 95 or even 98 that I have forgotten a lot of it, as witness certain questions I get wrong in A+ practice exams. I plead ignorance on this occasion :o

generally the old 486 computers were designed to use 15 inch or smaller (still got a couple of those 13 inch ones around here)..but it is most probably not the monitor, but rather the video card and/or the video card driver...try to find a newer driver maybe?

No sooner had I posted than I sorted the problem and I can now go right up to and beyond 1048x768 with 16 bit colour.

This is a Compaq Deskpro XE 450 and I believe they were a high spec machine for their day. It has actually outlived the 75mhz machine I bought years ago to replace it and whose HD and RAM I am now going to attempt to instal in this machine! The sound card is excellent and again better than the later machine so I guess the Compaq adaptor is good too - this machine dates back to the days when Compaq was a solid machine. I just love the access you can get to the BIOS and other settings by installing and using the F10 diagnostic partition.

Using the old machine is good fun and it is good to have to work at bit at it but at the same time it makes me appreciate my 2.2ghz XP machine and even my Celeron 667mhz one too! :D

Yeah..I remember those..can't remember if they required memory in pairs or not though..I have a few 486's around here..mostly IBM that do, and a packard bell that doesn't. Kinda fun to see what you can do with a machine that has less ram than most video cards