I am running into a problem which appears to remove or scramble my video drivers, limiting me to default settings and low res 16 color mode. The problem first happened when an old dos based program was run on the computer, upon exiting the dos program. I then started getting error screens upon boot up telling me that I needed to reset my video to 256 colors or more, however when I tried this and rebooted I get the error message that says that there is a problem or incompatability with my hardware or settings. I tried deleting out the old video drivers from the controll panel/video page and also the software remove page from controll panel/addremove software, and reinstalling them, with the same results. I suspect that they are not being totally removed. Calling tech support for my computer got the response to do a clean reinstall of windows which I did and which brought the system back to normal. A week later though the same problem occured when running an entirely different dos based program. I know that I can wipe out everything and start over with a clean install of windows, but this is getting old fast. Any ideas on how I can get the video back up to snuff?
The system is a Duron 800MHZ with 128m memory, onboard video S3 Pro Savage KM133. Motherboard is K7VMA, operating system win98v2.
Thanks in advance for any help or ideas.
The system is a Duron 800MHZ with 128m memory, onboard video S3 Pro Savage KM133. Motherboard is K7VMA, operating system win98v2.
Thanks in advance for any help or ideas.