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Installing Video Drivers

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by abcs

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I have a client with a Windows NT 4.0 workstation that I need to install the Video drivers. I had to re-install Windows NT last week and it overwrote the video drivers. The motherboard is an Asus CVU4X-V and and the drivers are on a CD that came with the motherboard. Its the VIA Integrated 4-in-1 driver set. When I go to display settings the color palette only shows 16 colors. I have installed these video drivers 4 different times and I cannot get more than 16 colors.

Any ideas on what I will have to do to get the drivers installed short of blowing away the C: drive and re-installing everything.

TIA for any suggestions.

Robert Payne

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by dmiles

Open the Control Panel,double-click System icon,double-click the Display icon and choose the Settings tab,click on Advanced and select the Adapter tab,click on the driver tab and click on the button to update the driver
The other option would be tolook at the manufacturers web site and download the updated driver and install.

by thechas

The VIA 4 in 1 driver is only for the motherboard chipset.
You also need to install the driver for the graphics adapter.
If this is on-board video, it is probably in another folder on the ASUS CD.
If the adapter is a seperate card, you need either that CD, or the latest driver from the video card manufacture.

I would check the revision of the 4 in 1 driver on the CD. It might be worthwhile to download the latest 4 in 1 from VIA.

Some video cards also require that DirectX be installed before they will run properly.

by abcs

Only problem is the CD-Rom drive is not recognized by the the Windows NT operating system. So I have no CD-Rom drive to install from.

by mphoffar

Answer 2 is right on this. The 4 in 1 should be motherboard stuff and not the Video Card. Although I realize that there's probobly an AGP driver and maybe a AGP Miniport driver to help with IRQ issues, these won't help you with anything the actualcard does.

The onboard video is a S3 Savage4 and you can find drivers for it at
http://www.savagenews.com/drivers/s3/savage4.html

I'm assuming you're already at a standard PCI video driver, so you changing the card to a custom location where you extract that download should be all you need to do

Good luck to you

Mark

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