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Video drivers for old Compaq
Hi,
I acquired an old Compaq Presario 1621 laptop from a company that was throwing it out, of course they wiped the hard drive and had no install/restore CDs, etc. for it. I put Win 98 SE on it but the generic video drivers are terrible. I searched the net for the drivers and found ones by NeoMagic that seem to work OK except for one thing - if you shut the computer down, it reverts to the generic Win98 drivers and you have to re-install the NeoMagic drivers every time you start it up. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Much thanks for any help Bevin |
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Where did you obtain Win 98 drivers for the video?
HH "Bevin Breitkreuz" wrote in message news:P206e.18537$7Q4.11563@clgrps13... Hi, I acquired an old Compaq Presario 1621 laptop from a company that was throwing it out, of course they wiped the hard drive and had no install/restore CDs, etc. for it. I put Win 98 SE on it but the generic video drivers are terrible. I searched the net for the drivers and found ones by NeoMagic that seem to work OK except for one thing - if you shut the computer down, it reverts to the generic Win98 drivers and you have to re-install the NeoMagic drivers every time you start it up. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Much thanks for any help Bevin |
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I got them from driverguide.com on the net. but it is unclear as to whether
the are really for this machine..... "HH" wrote in message ... Where did you obtain Win 98 drivers for the video? HH "Bevin Breitkreuz" wrote in message news:P206e.18537$7Q4.11563@clgrps13... Hi, I acquired an old Compaq Presario 1621 laptop from a company that was throwing it out, of course they wiped the hard drive and had no install/restore CDs, etc. for it. I put Win 98 SE on it but the generic video drivers are terrible. I searched the net for the drivers and found ones by NeoMagic that seem to work OK except for one thing - if you shut the computer down, it reverts to the generic Win98 drivers and you have to re-install the NeoMagic drivers every time you start it up. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Much thanks for any help Bevin |
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Try this one ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp6001-6500/sp6333.exe
Should work with yours. Hope This Helps With best regards, TheGarbageGuy. E-mail: |
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This is actually the one I have - I think the problem is not the drivers but
in the actual Compaq laptop set-up. Because I install these and they work fine, but shut the machine down, and they are gone, reverted to PCI VGA video driver. However, on a restart the driver stays installed. So, anyone got any ideas how to correct that problem......? "TheGarbageGuy" wrote in message ... Try this one ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp6001-6500/sp6333.exe Should work with yours. Hope This Helps With best regards, TheGarbageGuy. E-mail: |
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