Fixed Screen Resolution

[tomd]

I have an old Dell laptop with a native screen resolution 800x600 which I have put Windows 95 on prior to getting rid of, but the only display setting in will allow in Display Properties is 640x480 (The slider is greyed out), which makes the screen look distorted. Anyone know why / any ways round? It originally had a corrupt version of NT4.

[j2buttonsw]

Do you have correct Windows 95 video card driver? If yes,

[j2buttonsw]

******* useless new AB.. what monitor driver do you have? Set it to plug and play monitor or use a 800 x 600 LED/laptop screen if available.

[tomd]

Installed with "Standard VGA Video Driver" and "Unknown Monitor", don't know what hardware is actually in the laptop. Will try forcing change of monitor, was also looking for update for video driver but can't connect to internet as won't detect network card either.

[dodgyshirt]

Any OS 98 and below will also require drivers for the network card.

[j2buttonsw]

The standard VGA driver will not have a very high screen resolution. Go to the Dell site and find/download the driver there (Windows 95 will not find it, you will have to tell it - in very explicit terms- what video card driver it has to have) and span it across multiple floppy disks using winzip. The Dell site is pretty good for driver downloads.

[tomd]

Managed to force it up to 800x600 using generic '95 video super vga video drivers and generic super vga 800x600 monitor, but it only allows 16 colours. Any ideas on that front?

[tomd]

The Dell site had drivers for video card, pcmica network card and modem (they must have been the standard ones supplied with), audio, everything, from the operating system and laptop barcode. Magic!