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Anthona - 18 Feb 2006 20:21 GMT

This is weird? I have one destop computer with 2 seperate hd's. The
primary has XP home. The other I installed win98se. When I installed
win98, i made it my primary with Win98. Changed the necessary jumpers.
In fact, I just unplugged the XP drive with IDE cable. Naturally, after
installing win98, I had to reinstall some drivers...mainly the video
driver for win98, not xp. Initially it gave me the 16 bit, 640 x 460
screen..so as I had done in the past, reinstalled my monitor and
adapter. After reinstalling, I could not get back into windows upon
rebooting...it went into safe mode. I removed the driver, rebooted and
this time I got into windows normally. After trying numerous times, I
could never get that display resolution to change. I called my computer
vendor and he was absolutely useless. ..his remedy was to buy another
video driver or update it. It came with my system just 2 years ago,
custom made. NVidea does not OEM update drivers.They told me to see the
vendor.I didn't know that, but the vendor should of known. So my last
resort was to reverse the procedure as i did before and made my XP
driver the primary again, to see if I have the same problem with the
video driver. My resolution was still 1024 x 768 and useing ( highest )
32 bit. . So why won't this video card, under the chosen win98 driver,
change that resolution in win98?

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Alan - 20 Feb 2006 07:52 GMT

We do not appear to be alone with this. I don't know if an update from MS
has done something but a number of users have posted the same problems with
Win 98. In my case, it appeared to be a corruption of the Nvidia drivers. To
overcome, I deleted the Nvidia drivers with Add/Remove programs and then
reinstalled in safe mode and OK. What video card is it?
Alan

> This is weird? I have one destop computer with 2 seperate hd's. The
> primary has XP home. The other I installed win98se. When I installed
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> 32 bit. . So why won't this video card, under the chosen win98 driver,
> change that resolution in win98?

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MEB - 20 Feb 2006 21:04 GMT

nVidia issues an "all supported cards" (starting with TNT2 though will work
for TNT) driver for 98 at their website. If you have an on board chip and it
is a nVidia chip, you "MAY" need the "board manufacturer driver", however,
if you have ANY nVidia chip based "card" you can use the nVidia "reference"
driver from their site. They also have the XP drivers, alone with other OS
drivers (a few).
Though not Microsoft certified, they are usually the best bet for drivers..
However, you may lose some "special options" which only the manufacture
drivers supply, if you install them.

As you apparently use or used a dual boot, you may be loading a XP card
driver (via hook or handle) in the "boot sequence". If so, perhaps you might
wish to do a bootlog to see if the 98 driver vxd is loading for the card in
Win98. It may be conflicting with a prior loaded driver and will show an
error in the log. Open the bootlog.txt and search for "error", check these
out for problems with drivers and other..

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