Greetings, I had to reload W98 into my old pentium 2 machine. Changing display settings from 640x480 was inhibited afterwards. The display device was Standard PCI graphics adaptor(vga). Next step we downloaded Everest home and determined the display device was really 3dfxvoodoo3 3000. So I downloaded that driver into the machine and installed it as the display device driver. That seemed to remedy the inhibited desktop size and colors........until I restarted the machine, then the display size went back to 640x480, and cannot be moved. One thing did stay, and that was all the color selections. Any ideas? It's possible it has the wrong directx version. Not sure though. Thanks, Steve

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This is very possible?

Select Start/Run, type MSCONFIG in the 'Open' box and press enter. Select 
the 'Advanced' button and be sure the option 'VGA 640 x 480 x 16' isn't checked.


    

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Nope that wasn't it. That field you speak of is unchecked. In the read me file for the 3dfx driver, it says the system must be in the 16bpp mode before it can use hardware accleration? How can I find what it's set at now?


On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 11:57 am, JmC wrote:
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>This is very possible?
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>Select Start/Run, type MSCONFIG in the 'Open' box and press enter. Select
>the 'Advanced' button and be sure the option 'VGA 640 x 480 x 16' isn't checked.
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Right-click the desktop, then select PROPERTIES > SETTINGS > ADVANCED. You should 
find it located on one of the tabs?


    

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