OK, please don't laugh at my old PC.

I've had instances of flashing colors, BIOS screen, several times when I booted. That hasn't happened for awhile, but just recently my splash screen color has darkened, and my DOS screen lettering is pale and almost unreadable. In Windows, my background has darkened, and some graphic images appearances are very dark.

I've learned that the Windows Splash screen and the DOS Screen, are controlled by the BIOS and BIOS Setup setting. I checked the settings some time back, but the setting looked correct... to me.

My system is an OLD HP Vectra model, 1996. I know, it's an antique. MY OS is 95B OEM. Should I assume, that my graphics card is going out? I realize my whole system could die anytime. I haven't taken the time to bother with updating drivers, because I had no need to. My display was good, until recent months.

I don't understand hardware issues much, and I've tried locating newer drivers, but I just don't know how to locate the newest ones for my card. I realize it may not make any difference, but....I did download and install different drivers, but it didn't change anything. I ran S3's chip identifier utilities.

WinS3ID.EXE Results:

S3 Inc. Trio64 and Trio64 PnP PCI [Display adapter]
Chip ID: 8811

Chip Name: Trio64/64V+ (764/765)

MS DOS S3 Chip ID Utility Ver.1.00.07

S3 Video Chip: Trio 64 (764)
Display Memory Size: 2M
Display Memory Type: Fast Page Mode DRAM

If there's any hope, I'd sure appreciate any help you could give me. I just need to keep this beast going awhile longer.