[scifiguy1]

hi all

well i am pretty new at fixing computers (just a newlly found hobby)and again i seek the sage advice of the experts here on the forum

i was given a packard bell pc , about 4-5 yrs old wth win98 on it .........with a matching packard bell monitor to go with it

it seems it was working until it was taken into a fixit shop , but now is not

the problem is when hooked up to the original P.B. monitor the screen is very dark and hard to read..

but when hooked up to another monitor it works just fine ..correct brightness is okay

when the monitor is hooked up to another pc that also works fine ...

when i look under device manager i see it has a Rage 3D IIC AGP for a display adapter ...

my question is this ..

is a display adapter hardware, software or both???

and when i tried to change this under device manager to a standard windows display adapter it would not work it just came back up with the Rage 3D

it seems that this Rage 3D is not configued correctly or something

i do not see any extra cards plugged in on the mobo anywhere so i believe everything is onboard.. which has me confused because i am new at this and do not quite understand how it all works yet

i see update for the drivers but they all seem to be for Windows NT not win98

well, what`s next folks ????

like Dumbo said ....I`m all ears!!!!!

Dick