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Hello

A bit of a newbie to these wonderful old machines and Windows actually, so please bare with me.

I have a 770z that I did a clean install of Win 98 on. The install went perfectly well but I am stuck on 16 colors 640x480, so the video portion is cropped to the center of the display.

Can I change this through the Advanced Display Properties or do I need to install a specific video card driver?
I ran the video tests from BIOS, which pass with OK, and the video hardware test shows that 1024x768 @ 24 bit is supported.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Additional Info:
My particular model has the following related specs as per entering BIOS with F1.

SystemBoard
Model/Submodel/Revision FC/01/00
Power management version 1.04
POST/BIOS v. 1.08
Video v. 1.27
Setup v. 1.05
Slave controller v 1.07

Display is setup for single

All BIOS tests including advanced all pass, including formatting the HD through BIOS. The machine reports all OK.

BIOS version, Date IOET23WW, 09/10/99
Microprocessor Pentium(**) II Processor 366 MHz

Also installed a new coin cell battery for BIOS.

Sure looks like you are missing a graphics driver, and maybe others. Just click the "drivers" link at the top of the forum page, and search for drivers for your 770Z.

Hello Neil (Senior thinkpader)

Thank you so much for the heads up. What a great resource.

I will burn them to CD and then install, would that work. I also have a USB stick, can I just load them up on the stick? I will try the latter because I'm not sure if I have blank CDs on hand. I'll chime back with success or failure.

Much obliged by the link, what a terrific resource!

Alex

The basic installation of Windows 98 probably won't have drivers for many USB flash disks. I remember using an unofficial USB update. http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php

As far as I recall W98 SE supported usb1 natively.
However it used to need extra drivers to support many usb keys so this may hamper your efforts to find a usb stick/key that will work.
You will have to find a way of copying the video drivers onto the hard disk another way like from a network, a CD, connecting the HDD into another pc, maybe even floppies if the drivers are not too big.
So there are plenty of challenges there for you.