(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:20 am
Post subject: lines on screen Archived from groups: microsoft>public>win98>gen_discussion (more info?)
My Windows 98 will start up in the safe mode okay but if I want it to start
in normal mode with start up screen is full of red and green vertical lines
with some white at the bottom and blue at the top. What is causing this?
How can I fix it?
(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:12 pm
Post subject: Re: lines on screen [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
>My Windows 98 will start up in the safe mode okay but if I want it to start
>in normal mode with start up screen is full of red and green vertical lines
>with some white at the bottom and blue at the top. What is causing this?
>How can I fix it?
I would suspect your video driver. Safe Mode puts your video in the
most generic possible mode: 800x600 with -- umm, I'm not sure how many
colors, but relatively low color depth. When you boot normally, you're
(most likely) going to tell your video driver to use a higher
resolution and color depth.
So your first step would the web site of the maker of the computer or
video array, and see if you can find a more recent video driver for
Win98. That may not be easy, since nobody is really interested in
writing drivers for Win98 today.
(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:15 pm
Post subject: Re: lines on screen [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Tim, for your information, the most generic on my system in Windows 98 Second
Edition is 640x480 resolution mode with usually 256 colors but I have even
managed to get the colors down to just 16 colors. I just thought I would let
you know this is the most generic video I have been able to get within
Windows 98 Second Edition. It would not surprise me if some of my older disk
operating system games have even lower resolution than that but this is the
lowest resolution and color display I have had with just the generic VGA
driver and using manipulation on my part as well.
"Tim Slattery" wrote:
> beaver <beaver RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >My Windows 98 will start up in the safe mode okay but if I want it to start
> >in normal mode with start up screen is full of red and green vertical lines
> >with some white at the bottom and blue at the top. What is causing this?
> >How can I fix it?
>
> I would suspect your video driver. Safe Mode puts your video in the
> most generic possible mode: 800x600 with -- umm, I'm not sure how many
> colors, but relatively low color depth. When you boot normally, you're
> (most likely) going to tell your video driver to use a higher
> resolution and color depth.
>
> So your first step would the web site of the maker of the computer or
> video array, and see if you can find a more recent video driver for
> Win98. That may not be easy, since nobody is really interested in
> writing drivers for Win98 today.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(Shell/User)
> Slattery_T RemoveThis @bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt >
(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:11 am
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 08:20:01 -0700, beaver
<beaver DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and
composed:
>My Windows 98 will start up in the safe mode okay but if I want it to start
>in normal mode with start up screen is full of red and green vertical lines
>with some white at the bottom and blue at the top. What is causing this?
>How can I fix it?
It could be a RAM fault on your video card that shows up at higher
resolutions. It could also be a timing issue, in which case you could
experiment with lower refresh rates, if your eyes can stand it.
- Franc Zabkar
--
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:36 pm
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"beaver" <beaver.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5D2C4FD2-3BC2-4B13-9AEE-D0DC5A9300E7@microsoft.com...
> My Windows 98 will start up in the safe mode okay but if I want it to start
> in normal mode with start up screen is full of red and green vertical lines
> with some white at the bottom and blue at the top. What is causing this?
> How can I fix it?
Back up your registry, then start the computer in Safe mode, go to
"Control Panel", "System", "Device Manager", double-click "Display
Adapters" and remove the existing display adapter. Then restart
normally and let Windows redetect the hardware. If this doesn't help,
start the computer in "Command Prompt", type the following three lines
and the manufacturer and model of the display adapter should appear
on the right side of the screen. Please note that the characters in line
2 are zeroes.
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