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    Question Help Please

    I am trying to get my 16bit color to come to 32bit color, and this is my info on my computer that is giving me hard time:

    System
    Host Name : XXXX

    Processor
    Model : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III
    Speed : 448MHz
    Performance Rating : PR538 (estimated)
    Type : Standard
    L2 On-board Cache : 512kB ECC Synchronous Write-Back (4-way, 32 byte line size)

    Mainboard
    Bus(es) : ISA X-Bus AGP PCI USB i2c/SMBus
    MP Support : No
    MP APIC : No
    System BIOS : IBM NVKT47AUS
    System : IBM 6892N8U
    Mainboard : IBM 6892N8U
    Total Memory : 384MB SDRAM

    Chipset 1
    Model : Intel Corporation 82443BX/ZX 440BX/ZX CPU to PCI Bridge (AGP Implemented)
    Front Side Bus Speed : 1x 100MHz (100MHz data rate)
    Total Memory : 384MB SDRAM
    Memory Bus Speed : 1x 100MHz (100MHz data rate)

    Video System
    Monitor/Panel : Samsung SyncMaster 3NE
    Adapter : Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)

    Physical Storage Devices
    Hard Disk : GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE

    can someone tell me how i can get it to work from this info i give?

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    Welcome to windrivers badboy. It seems that windows has installed a generic video driver instead of the correct one. According to ibm's web site, it appears that this system shipped with a number of different video cards. Can you tell us:
    1. What video card do you have?
    2. What version of windows?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hudsonsmith
    Welcome to windrivers badboy. It seems that windows has installed a generic video driver instead of the correct one. According to ibm's web site, it appears that this system shipped with a number of different video cards. Can you tell us:
    1. What video card do you have?
    2. What version of windows?
    The video card is build into motherboard and i am useing windows ME

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    You could try this but you didnt say what windows
    this is 98 for a Matrox G200
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...&cc=us&lang=en
    This is 98 for a S3 Trio
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...&cc=us&lang=en
    This is 98 for a savage4
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...&cc=us&lang=en

    As you can see there are a lot of different video cards for that system Hopefully 1 of these will tweak your memory as to what you had
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrit
    You could try this but you didnt say what windows
    this is 98 for a Matrox G200
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...&cc=us&lang=en
    This is 98 for a S3
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...&cc=us&lang=en

    I am sorry, i think it is S3 Trio 3D on board video card

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrit
    You could try this but you didnt say what windows
    this is 98 for a Matrox G200
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...&cc=us&lang=en
    This is 98 for a S3
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...&cc=us&lang=en
    This is 98 for a savage4
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview...&cc=us&lang=en

    As you can see there are a lot of different video cards for that system Hopefully 1 of these will tweak your memory as to what you had
    I did say what windows i am useing, it is windows ME

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrit
    You could try this but you didnt say what windows

    LIES!! Ferrit, LIES!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matridom
    LIES!! Ferrit, LIES!!!
    stroll up and you will see it, i posted it!

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    so go ahead and try the S3 Trio link I posted
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrit
    so go ahead and try the S3 Trio link I posted
    I am going to have to put windows 98 on to get the driver to work and after that upgrade it to windows Me, would that bother the drivers, do you know?

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    I see absolutely no reason to do that put the files unzipped into a folder and then do a driver update pointing it to the folder you unzipped the drivers into
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrit
    I see absolutely no reason to do that put the files unzipped into a folder and then do a driver update pointing it to the folder you unzipped the drivers into
    thank you, the driver work just fine and how i have 32bit color! you are true techie in my book!
    i am hopeing that it work! i have MEse

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