Windows 2000 display problems

DarkShadow · 11 Apr 2006 at 15:20

Last night, I was over at my uncles place. After years of torture with Windows ME, I upgraded him to Windows 2000 Pro with SP4.

He has an integrated graphics card Something Pro S3 iirc.

Now one problem was the display driver, it wouldn't display above 480 x 640 as you can see pictured:

Neither would it display more than 16 bit. Run wouldn't run msconfig either.

I have no idea what the mobo is, but it's a pretty old pc (900mhz, 128mb ram)

Ran a lot of windows 2000 updates too.

Would appreciate any help at all.

Otacon · 11 Apr 2006 at 15:22

You have no msconfig on Win2000, though it will run if you grab the exe from another machine.

You need to find out the mobo model so drivers can be found. It's using basic VGA drivers at the moment, so you aren't going anywhere.

DarkShadow · 11 Apr 2006 at 15:26

If i were to open the side panel and look at the mobo, should I be able to get mobo name and model etc?

Otacon · 11 Apr 2006 at 15:31

There should something on the pcb yes. You may even find a clue as to what the on board graphics chip is.

Matt-Page · 11 Apr 2006 at 15:37

What ever reference or model numbers you find, put them into Google and it sould return something of use to you.

All you then need to do is go to the manufactures website and download the drivers.

marc2003 · 11 Apr 2006 at 17:45

this should read the info you need directly from the card itself. no need to remove side panels.....

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3908.html