stuck in 16 color, 640x480

[supramario]

I've searched and found a few people with this problem, but my problem is slightly different in that it didn't occur out of nowhere. A brief history, my friend was running win98 and hadn't been reinstalled since 98. Their video card had also been damaged at some point. I did a clean reinstall and everything was great. Next I got them a used pci video card. The one they had was AGP. I had a little trial and error getting it installed, but now I get the infamous "There is a problem with your display settings. The adapter type is incorrect, or the current settings do not work with your hardware." I was worried about being able to find a driver for the video card, but windows found one on startup. Currently the setup is both video cards in the motherboard with the vga cable plugged into the new pci card. The agp card produces no output. The other resolutions and color dephts WORK when you apply them, but as soon as you restart the computer, not just windows it gives you that error. Where do you suggest I go for the driver if there is in fact something wrong with the one windows provided or is there some way in the registry I can turn off that alert and just let it run? As far as I know, the card is a cirrus logic, although there is so much writing everywhere I have no idea. Thanks everyone.

EDIT: I'm at my house across town so I don't know the name of the card, but I just found it in my internet history from the other day. Some text on the card is:

"9403-10"
"CIRRUS LOGIC"
"ICUVGA-GW203"
"CL-GD5430-QC-C"

Hope this helps a little.

[Murf]

Hi! Welcome to CTH

1. Since you left the AGP card in, you need to get into SETUP -usually DEL key at the post screen. In there you need to find an entry pertaining to AGP/PCI, generally which one is displayed first. Need to set it to PCI. Or maybe just disable AGP - each motherboard is different.

Just because the monitor is not hooked up to the AGP card the system still recognizes it and may be assigning an IRQ to it. The best thing is to remove the card completely.

2. Once this is done Windows may find the right driver. Otherwise you can go to WINDOWS UPDATE site and when it scans for an update should find the right driver for the card.

3. That card is probably a "Gainward" as Cirus Logic is the chip itself. And the Windows CD should have them on it.

[hypnotizeminds]

Note: If the DEL key doesn't get you into SETUP (BIOS), try F2 during POST. There is likely to be an on-screen message such as "Setup - F2" or something similar.

[supramario]

2. Once this is done Windows may find the right driver. Otherwise you can go to WINDOWS UPDATE site and when it scans for an update should find the right driver for the card.
Windows has the correct driver for it, at least I think (or at least it thinks). Where can I go to get it if the win98 or winxp discs or the windows update site aren't working, what is another alternative?

[hypnotizeminds]

Visit the manufacturer's web site, most of the time they offer driver downloads to support their products.

[Murf]

http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=34260

Login In: DRIVERS
Password: ALL

Unzip and extract to a floppy. Then update driver and lead it to the floppy.

Hopefully this driver will work.