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  • April 9, 2001 at 3:00 am #2089639

    Display Adapter

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    by dave.raj · about 21 years, 10 months ago

    Hi, I have installed Win98 second edition on a pc, but the display adapter that it picks up is a standard VGA card, only giving me options to pick 16 bit colour. Now I opened up the machine and the display adapter is a S3 Trio 3D, now how come the drivers doesn,t pick up this adapter. I have picked the driver from the list as well, but it still wont detect the adapter and I can’t make any changes to the display. Now I have to change the settings because I can’t open a CAD software with the current display settings. Thankyou

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    • April 9, 2001 at 3:06 am #3813194

      Display Adapter

      by russ werner · about 21 years, 10 months ago

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      You will need to get new drivers for your card. Try driversguide.com Use “drivers” as user name and “all” as password. At bottom of page go to drivers search. Use the S3 Trio 3D in your search for the video driver. There are manufactures drivers as well as many 3rd party drivers available.

    • April 9, 2001 at 7:21 am #3812993

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      by volovoy · about 21 years, 10 months ago

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    • April 9, 2001 at 12:03 pm #3813908

      Display Adapter

      by addison99 · about 21 years, 10 months ago

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      Sounds like you need to download drivers.

      I presume the card worked fine in another PC?

      Then this card is not supported by windows 98. Visit http://www.diamondmm.co.uk and click on the S3 section. You can also http://www.s3.com but thsi site cant be displayed at the moment. Just checked the diamond site but having problems there to.

      Keep trying these two sites and you will get the drivers you require.

    • April 10, 2001 at 5:29 am #3812321

      Display Adapter

      by barmaley · about 21 years, 10 months ago

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      try to remove driver in Device Manager
      let windows to rediscover the video card
      Many times it helped me.

    • April 22, 2001 at 5:43 am #3860909

      Display Adapter

      by mickrose7 · about 21 years, 9 months ago

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      Depending on the number of times that you have installed the S3 you will have placed the same number of adapters in Device Manager. The first thing you will need to do is is to start in safe mode and delete the adapters that you may find in Device Manager. You will have downloaded the “latest” drivers from one of the well know sites. Place them in a file on the desktop and when you re-boot window will ask for the drivers. Browse to them and double click on the setup/install file the rest should be plain sailing. Set your monitor correctly picking it from the list of monitors otherwise you will not get the best from the new drivers. Dump S3 though get a GEOFORCE or ATI or MATROX card, better etcdrivers

    • April 24, 2001 at 12:58 am #3803461

      Display Adapter

      by dave.raj · about 21 years, 9 months ago

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