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by mikepell Feb 12, 2003 last reply Mar 16, 2003

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I have an ibmpc300gl(m/t6275-b9u) that I cannot change the resulution to 800/600. The video chip is s3trio3d on board. I have tried to update the drivers but no luck. I have put a call to s3graphics, no reply. I have tried to disable in bios and have not found a jumper on the board to disable. Ibm is not much help on the website. I have tried another video card but it still goes to the s3. Any suggestions?

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by pattyc Feb 12, 2003

What operating system are you running?

by mikepell Mar 16, 2003

I'm running win98se

by jsolari020 Feb 13, 2003

Umm..try and go to http://www.driverguide.com and look for the newest drivers there...I found them there when changing out a card on a computer i was fixing..they worked fine after that..also try totally deleting the hardware from the Device manager..and then installing it after a restart

by mikepell Mar 16, 2003

I tried, no luck. I did try and put in a newer video card and it picked it up...after 6 tries!

by jsolari020 Feb 13, 2003

by mikepell Mar 16, 2003

At first, the new video cards wouldn't work. I couldn't get the bios to disable the onboard...

by thechas Feb 13, 2003

The 'reference' S3 trio drivers may not work with your system.

For many on-board video systems, you need the driver from the system mfg.

Here is the link to IBMs driver for W95 and 98
http://tinyurl.com/5sx4

There should be a way to disable the on-board video in BIOS settings. However, these are often somewhat 'cryptic'.

Another thing to try, is dedicating more RAM for the video.
To support higher resolutions, you need more video RAM.
The standard 2MB may not be able to run at 800*600 in anything above 16 color mode.

Chas

by mikepell Mar 16, 2003

I'm trying to get more memory.

by netuser Feb 13, 2003

You can disable the device through the device manager, then install another video card.

by mikepell Mar 16, 2003

tried to, wouldn't disable...called ibm, not much help. I also called the company that bought trio. He couldn't help me only gave me some drivers that were a old. He said that they don't provide drivers for ibm anymore!

by wcp Feb 13, 2003

by mikepell Mar 16, 2003

Tried, didn't work.

by nicolaspt Feb 14, 2003

You can find the driver for your IBM PC300GL-S3 Trio 3D video for All OS at this site...Just copy and paste it in your browser address bar. Hope this will help.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/dlsearch.wss?rs=0&dc=D43K5&atrn=SWPlatform&atrv=all&atrn1=SWVersion&atrv1=all&q=ibm+pc+300gl+s3trio3d+&tc=&loc=en_US&lang=en&cs=utf-8&r=10&rankfile=0&cc=us&Submit.x=75&Submit.y=5

If the link above doesn't work, try to search at the IBM website Support & Downloads using this string "ibm pc 300gl s3trio3d ". This is where I get the URL.

Good Luck.