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Venusthefirst · 07-17-2000, 10:10 AM

I want to give this computer to my granddaughter when I build myself a new one in a coule of months time. I bought her Encyclopaedia Britannica and it needs 600 x 800 pixels resolution to run. When I bought this computer second hand it had that,or so I was told. When I wiped my drive and reloaded recently the resolution had gone to 640 x 480 pixels and I can't change it back. My Hewlett Packard monitor is anergo super VGA D1195A 72 Hz refresh rate in 800 x 600 (60hz RR in 640 x 480 pixels) It is seven years old and is FIXED FREQUENCY. The graphics card is Cirrus Logic CL-GD54434.QC-D
I've found that this card is very old but I beleive somebody had set it up with an updated driver. I thought of doing this from theWindows98 own selection of drivers but I'm worried in case something 'drastic' goes wrong. Ibought a new graphics card that ws supposed to support much higher graphics than 600 x 800 but I still couldn't change the resolution and had to take it out and get a refund. Anybody got any ideas how I can manage to change the resolution wihtout having to buy a new monitor? Most of the new graphics cards are too sophisticated for this monitor. I'd like to be able to update the graphics card driver if possible but am unsure of which driver to use. If I choose a new one and it doesn't work can I gobackinto windows under Safe Mode and change it back again? Any of you clever guys out there willing to help a 'damsel' in distress:-) ??

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Venus

07-17-2000, 10:10 AM	#1
Venusthefirst Member (3 bit) Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 5	I want to give this computer to my granddaughter when I build myself a new one in a coule of months time. I bought her Encyclopaedia Britannica and it needs 600 x 800 pixels resolution to run. When I bought this computer second hand it had that,or so I was told. When I wiped my drive and reloaded recently the resolution had gone to 640 x 480 pixels and I can't change it back. My Hewlett Packard monitor is anergo super VGA D1195A 72 Hz refresh rate in 800 x 600 (60hz RR in 640 x 480 pixels) It is seven years old and is FIXED FREQUENCY. The graphics card is Cirrus Logic CL-GD54434.QC-D I've found that this card is very old but I beleive somebody had set it up with an updated driver. I thought of doing this from theWindows98 own selection of drivers but I'm worried in case something 'drastic' goes wrong. Ibought a new graphics card that ws supposed to support much higher graphics than 600 x 800 but I still couldn't change the resolution and had to take it out and get a refund. Anybody got any ideas how I can manage to change the resolution wihtout having to buy a new monitor? Most of the new graphics cards are too sophisticated for this monitor. I'd like to be able to update the graphics card driver if possible but am unsure of which driver to use. If I choose a new one and it doesn't work can I gobackinto windows under Safe Mode and change it back again? Any of you clever guys out there willing to help a 'damsel' in distress:-) ?? ------------------ Venus