Wow! Thanks for all the suggestions, Guys. First about that terrible spelling in my PS - I do actually know how to spell 'know' when I saw I'd typed 'no' I was truly embarraseed (blush, blush. Well it was 3am over here, I was tired - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it:-D
I hate opening up this computer, the case is old and it 'argues' about being put back together again:-)(I have to fiddle to get the floppy drive to accept diskettes afterwards) so I think I'll try Enigma's solution first. But I'm going to print all this wonderful information out so that I will know better the next time.
I couldn't find this card on the Cirrus Logic site either but, when I went to 'Windrivers' and typed its number in I got a message saying something like 'the card you have specified is very old and never supported much more than VGA, the drivers for it have been discontinued'
I asked HP for advice (its one of their monitors) and the sent me to three graphics cards' manufacturers' sites. I just went to Matrox. The said to make sure the monitor was multisinc so when i told them HP said it was 'fixed frequency' they said they could not supply a card that would work with it.
I bought a new graphics card that was supposed to support much higher than 600 x 800 pixels but Windows still would not allow me to change up, when I tried I got 'ghosting' and windows reset the original 640 x 480 pixels a few seconds later. I asked the electronics store where I bought the card why I stillcould not change up with it but they didn't know, they let me take it back (seeing as how it was no use to me). However this was before Matrox told me to make sure my monitor was multisink and not fixed frequency or their cards would still not enable me to change up.
What was still puzzling me was that the new card was capable of supporting higher than 600 x 800 pixels and the monitor is capable of 600 x 800 pixels so, even though it is 'fixed frequency' there must be a way of setting things so that the monitor can display in 600 x 800 pixels. I wish I'd heard Enigma's reply before I took the new card back. I still don't have an updated driver for this Cirrus Logic card and so I can't try it out just yet.
Maybe I'll open it up later and find out the number you want, but I can't remember seeing anymore on it than I already gave you, that was on a stick on label. Would the number you all want be 'engraved' on the actual card?
Thanks for all the help and advice, Guys. I'll be chewing it all over tonight.
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